NCBFAA Urges 'Informed Compliance' Policy for Burdensome Holds on In-Bond Shipments
Jan, 13, 2025 |
International Trade Today
CBP should put in place an "informed compliance" policy for holds on previously filed in-bond shipments that prohibit their subsequent export, given the lack of automated notifications of those holds to the filer, according to comments that the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America submitted to CBP last week.
"Until CBP actively pushes out real-time hold notifications eliminating CBP’s perceived need to query every in-bond movement, CBP should only advise customs brokers and other filers when they have proceeded to file subsequent in-bonds via alerts amounting to no more than informed, not enforced, compliance," the NCBFAA said in the Jan. 6 letter signed by its President Jose Gonzalez and addressed to Brad Slutsky, director of the cargo security and controls division for CBP's Office of Field Operations
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