Notice2025-10227
Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
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Published
June 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentU.S. Customs and Border Protection
Abstract
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) will hold its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in Washington, DC. The meeting will be open to the public via webinar only.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 107 (Thursday, June 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23944-23946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10227]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
[Docket No. USCBP-2025-0027]
Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of
Homeland Security (DHS).
ACTION: Notice of open Federal Advisory Committee meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC)
will hold its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, in
Washington, DC. The meeting will be open to the public via webinar
only.
DATES: The COAC will meet on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, from 1:00 p.m.
to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Please note the meeting may
close early if the committee has completed its business. Comments must
be submitted in writing no later than June 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
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ADDRESSES: The meeting will be open to the public via webinar only. The
webinar link will be posted by 5:00 p.m. EDT on June 9, 2025, at
<a href="https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings">https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings</a>. For information or to request special assistance for the
meeting, contact Mrs. Latoria Martin, Office of Trade Relations, U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, at (202) 344-1440, as soon as possible.
Comments may be submitted by one of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Search for Docket Number USCBP-2025-0027. To submit a comment, click
the ``Comment'' button located on the top-left hand side of the docket
page.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cebabcafaaababb8aba0babd8eadacbee0aaa6bde0a9a1b8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e397918287868695868d9790a3808193cd878b90cd848c95">[email protected]</span></a>. Include Docket Number
USCBP-2025-0027 in the subject line of the message.
Comments must be submitted in writing no later than June 13, 2025,
at 5:00 p.m. EDT and must be identified by Docket No. USCBP-2025-0027.
All submissions received must also include the words ``Department of
Homeland Security.'' All comments received will be posted without
change to <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings">https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings</a> and <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Therefore, please refrain from
including any personal information you do not wish to be posted. You
may wish to view the Privacy and Security Notice, which is available
via a link on <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Latoria Martin, Office of Trade
Relations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, Room 3.5A, Washington, DC 20229, (202) 344-1440; or Ms. Lisa Beth
M. Brown, Designated Federal Officer, at (202) 344-1440 or via email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cbbfb9aaafaeaebdaea5bfb88ba8a9bbe5afa3b8e5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="691d1b080d0c0c1f0c071d1a290a0b19470d011a470e061f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is given under the
authority of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Title 5 U.S.C., ch.
10. The COAC provides advice to the Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security, the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, and
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on matters
pertaining to the commercial operations of CBP and related functions
within the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of the
Treasury.
The COAC is committed to ensuring all participants have equal
access regardless of disability status. If you require a reasonable
accommodation due to a disability to fully participate, please contact
Mrs. Latoria Martin at (202) 344-1440 as soon as possible.
Please feel free to share this information with other interested
members of your organization or association.
To facilitate public participation, we are inviting public comments
on the issues the committee will consider prior to the formulation of
recommendations as listed in the Agenda section below.
There will be a public comment period after each subcommittee
update during the meeting on June 18, 2025. During the meeting,
comments may be submitted via the trade events mailbox at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0175736065646477646f7572416263712f6569722f666e77"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6a1e180b0e0f0f1c0f041e192a09081a440e0219440d051c">[email protected]</span></a> or through the Microsoft Teams chat feature.
Please note the public comment period for speakers may end before the
time indicated on the schedule that is posted on the CBP web page:
<a href="http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac">http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac</a>.
Agenda
The COAC will hear from the current subcommittees on the topics
listed below:
1. The Intelligent Enforcement Subcommittee will provide updates on
the work completed and topics discussed in its working groups. The
Antidumping/Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD) Working Group will provide
updates regarding its work and discussions on importer compliance with
AD/CVD and other trade remedy measures and requirements. The
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Process Modernization Working Group
will provide updates concerning progress associated with its proposed
recommendations specific to IPR enforcement and facilitation. The
Forced Labor Working Group (FLWG) will submit proposed recommendations
for the committee's consideration and provide updates on continued
discussions regarding trade outreach and clarification of requirements.
In particular, the FLWG anticipates providing proposed recommendations
regarding suggested updates to the ``Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
(UFLPA) U.S. Customs and Border Protection Operational Guidance for
Importers.''
2. The Next Generation Facilitation Subcommittee will provide
updates on all of its working groups. The Automated Commercial
Environment (ACE) Modernization (formerly ACE 2.0) Working Group will
report on its discussions about trade priorities. The Broker
Modernization Working Group (BMWG) remains focused on the enhancement
of the end user experience and improving the administration of the
Customs Broker License Exam (CBLE) and will provide updates. This
quarter, the Modernized Entry Processes Working Group (MEPWG) continued
its National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) discussions and will
provide updates on its efforts concerning the reconciliation test. The
MEPWG will also discuss areas where CBP could provide further guidance
on the Broker Cybersecurity Incident Procedures in the form of
Frequently Asked Questions. The Customs Interagency Industry Working
Group (CIIWG) will discuss its resubmission, with supporting ACE
records, of previous examples it provided to CBP of duplicative data
elements scenarios currently required in ACE. The CIIWG also
anticipates providing updates on the Global Business Identifier (GBI)
program.
3. The Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee will provide updates on five
of its seven active working groups. The Export Modernization Working
Group has met two times this quarter. The March meeting was a kickoff
for 2025 to establish action items and priorities after the closure of
the public comment period for the Rail Export notice of proposed
rulemaking (NPRM). The April meeting focused on defining Progressive
Filing and reviewing the finalized flowchart for Air Mode. The working
group tasked members with another review of the previously submitted
recommendations to identify any additions or revisions that may be
needed. The Drawback Task Force has met twice this quarter and, in
particular, continues its work on the list related to the error
validations and the updates of the transmission codes for the ACE
Document Image System (DIS). There is the potential for proposed
recommendations this quarter regarding updates to the error dictionary,
but more conversation is needed prior to presenting proposed
recommendations to the full committee. The De Minimis Working Group met
two times this past quarter. In these meetings, the discussion centered
mostly around CBP's enforcement of the $800 limit per person per day
and ACE processing of de minimis shipments per Executive Order 14256
(90 FR 14899, April 7, 2025). The De Minimis Working Group does not
have any proposed recommendations for this public meeting. The Centers
Working Group continues to evaluate its previously proposed
recommendations and will determine whether any additional proposed
recommendations may come from that review or from new topics that are
discussed within the working group. The FTZ/Warehouse Working Group
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has completed its initial review of the foreign trade zone (FTZ)
regulations (19 CFR part 146) and is continuing to review several
sections of the regulations in particular. When the working group
completes its review of the FTZ regulations, it intends to submit
proposed recommendations for updates and changes to the regulations for
the full committee's consideration; the working group will also review
the bonded warehouse regulations, FTZ manual, and the Bonded Warehouse
Manual. The Cross-Border Recognition Working Group has not met this
quarter and remains on hiatus. The Trade Partnership and Engagement
Working Group is focusing efforts on reviewing an updated handbook for
Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Trade Compliance
Program members as well as a review of the CTPAT Minimum Security
Criteria to drive efficiency and eliminate redundancies in the program.
The Pipeline Working Group did not meet this quarter and will not have
any proposed recommendations at the upcoming meeting.
Meeting materials will be available on June 9, 2025, at: <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings">http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac/coac-public-meetings</a>.
Lisa Beth M. Brown,
Acting Executive Director, Office of Trade Relations.
[FR Doc. 2025-10227 Filed 6-3-25; 8:45 am]
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