At its most recent meeting in September, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee approved the following recommendations for action by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- CBP should provide electronic messages for dates upon which regulatory and statutory requirements depend to ensure accurate duty collection and meet other regulatory requirements. These pertinent dates are required for duty calculation and other cargo processes such as importer security filing, general order, in-bond, currency exchange rates, and quota and should be made available both in manifest queries and via cargo release status messages.
- CBP should develop a chatbot to address frequently-asked questions associated with tariffs and tariff-related issues, including tariff stacking, the removal of de minimis, the utilization of postal channels, and other core definitions.
- CBP should implement the use of the electronic permit to transfer system for all bonded movements within a port across all modes of transportation.
- CBP should replace existing paper-based in-bond processes, including CBP Form 6043, with electronic alternatives to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- CBP should update its guidance document on setting bond amounts so that the rounding rules for the Activity Code 1 continuous bond eliminate the $10,000 increments when a bond amount would be more than the minimum $50,000 and less than $100,000 (the next higher increment for a bond after the $50,000 minimum should be $100,000).
- When creating or updating a name and address through the use of CBP Form 5106 or its electronic filing equivalent, CBP should standardize the physical and mailing addresses.
- CBP should identify the physical addresses frequently used by P.O. box centers, business service centers, etc., that may be at higher risk of erroneously being reported to be the physical location of a business or individual.
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