COAC Export Working Group Issues Draft Recommendations
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee’s Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee Export Working Group issued draft recommendations this week ahead of the COAC’s July 15 meeting. The group recommends that CBP review, compare and eliminate any “duplicative and unnecessary” data elements between the Electronic Export Information and Air, Ocean, and Rail manifest. The group also recommended that the duplicative data elements only be required from the owner of the data “since it is the most timely and accurate source,” and recommended that CBP “provide a data-flow and process-flow map” for government agencies. The map would define where data originates, “such as the EEI, the Manifest, and Departure messages,” the group said.
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In a separate government paper, the Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee Export Modernization Working Group said its next step is to hold a series of two-hour working sessions instead of a face-to face meeting. The goal of the sessions is to develop “a comprehensive future state document” for CBP’s export modernization strategy “aligned with the 21st Century Initiative” (see 1907250028).