On February 6, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that the next Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting will be held on February 28, 2018 in Miami, Florida.
Here are some of the items CBP listed on the agenda:
- An update on recommendations regarding CBP's plans to roll out new C-TPAT criteria and on the progress on the Trusted Trader Strategy;
- Discussions on the progress of the Fish & Wildlife Service Working Group and the white paper on the Harmonized Tariff Schedule project;
- Discussion by the Exports Subcommittee of the final work of the Export Manifest Working Group;
- An update from CBP's Trade Transformation Office on ACE Deployment G Release 4;
- The establishment of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (TFTEA) Educational Mandate Working Group;
- The progress being made in the e-Commerce Working Group;
- The committee will also discuss the progress of the Global Supply Chain Subcommittee's Emerging Technologies Working Group;
- The activities of the newly formed In-Bond Working Group;
- The Trade Enforcement & Revenue Collection (TERC) Subcommittee will provide necessary updates from the Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty, Bond, Forced Labor and Intellectual Property Rights Working Groups.
CBP has opened the meeting to the public who register by 5:00 p.m. EST, February 27, 2018 and will accept comments submitted to them by no later than February 26, 2018.
The federal register notice can be found here:
