CBP posted more documents ahead of the March 31 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
21st Century Customs Framework
The 21st Century Customs Framework is a CBP initiative that seeks to modernize the flow of goods into the United States. The goals of the initiative are to enhance facilitation and security, ensure seamless data sharing, increase visibility into modern supply chains, provide enforcement flexibility and streamline processes to deter bad actors and protect U.S. consumers and businesses from unfair competition. CBP created a task force representing U.S. businesses which, after discussions among trade and CBP representatives of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, recommended a series of legislative proposals currently being considered by Congress.
RANCHO MIRAGE, California -- CBP has faced some delays with beginning the next term of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, but it is very close to holding its first meeting, said AnnMarie Highsmith, CBP’s executive assistant commissioner in the Office of Trade. Highsmith also said the agency is on track to revamp its system for collecting customs duties, taxes and fees by 2024, and said its Section 321 data pilot has been a “big success.”
CBP's legislative proposal related to the 21st Century Customs framework may leave out discussion of possible alternative funding sources, said Garrett Wright, who leads the 21CCF effort as director of trade modernization at CBP's Office of Trade. "We are considering decoupling insufficient funding from the rest of this 21CCF package and focusing our efforts on what would be authorizing language," he said. Once "any one of those statutes gets passed, then we can have a conversation with the Hill about how to best fund."
CBP posted multiple documents ahead of the June 23 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
CBP posted multiple documents ahead of the March 17 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
CBP posted multiple documents ahead of the Dec. 16 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting: