Notice2025-16175
Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
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Published
August 25, 2025
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentU.S. Customs and Border Protection
Abstract
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. The meeting will be open to the public via webinar only.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 162 (Monday, August 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41399-41400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16175]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
[Docket No. USCBP-2025-0383]
Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Notice of Open Federal Advisory Committee Meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
(Committee) will hold its quarterly meeting on Wednesday, September 17,
2025, in Washington, DC. The meeting will be open to the public via
webinar only.
DATES: The Committee will meet on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, from
1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Please note the meeting
may close early if the Committee has completed its business. Comments
must be submitted in writing no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight
Time on September 12, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be open to the public via webinar only. The
webinar link will be posted by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on
September 16, 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="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Search for Docket Number USCBP-2025-0383. 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#0672746762636370636872754665647628626e7528616970"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a0d4d2c1c4c5c5d6c5ced4d3e0c3c2d08ec4c8d38ec7cfd6">[email protected]</span></a>. Include Docket Number
USCBP-2025-0383 in the subject line of the message.
Comments must be submitted in writing no later than 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Daylight Time on September 12, 2025, and must be identified by
Docket No. USCBP-2025-0383. 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. Laurie B.
Dempsey, Designated Federal Officer, at (202) 344-1440 or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f286809396979784979c8681b2919082dc969a81dc959d84"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="abdfd9cacfceceddcec5dfd8ebc8c9db85cfc3d885ccc4dd">[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 Committee 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 on matters
pertaining to the commercial operations of Customs and Border
Protection and related functions within the Department of Homeland
Security and the Department of the Treasury.
The Committee is committed to ensuring all participants have equal
access regardless of disability status. If you require 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
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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 September 17, 2025. During the meeting,
comments may be submitted via the trade events mailbox at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d4a0a6b5b0b1b1a2b1baa0a794b7b6a4fab0bca7fab3bba2"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9befe9fafffefeedfef5efe8dbf8f9ebb5fff3e8b5fcf4ed">[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 Customs and Border
Protection web page: <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac">http://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/coac</a>.
Agenda
The Committee will hear from the current subcommittees on the
topics listed below:
1. The Intelligent Enforcement Subcommittee will provide updates on
the work completed in its working groups. The Intellectual Property
Rights Process Modernization Working Group will wind down this quarter
and plans to have final comments and/or proposed recommendations. The
Forced Labor Working Group will wind down this quarter and hopes to
have final comments and/or proposed recommendations. The Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Working Group will wind down this quarter and
plans to have final comments and/or proposed recommendations for a path
forward.
2. The Next Generation Facilitation Subcommittee will provide
updates on three of its working groups. The Automated Commercial
Environment Modernization (formerly ACE 2.0) Working Group will wind
down this quarter and plans to have final comments and/or proposed
recommendations on its discussions about trade priorities. The Broker
Modernization Working Group remains focused on the enhancement of the
candidate experience and improving the administration of the Customs
Broker License Exam. The Broker Modernization Working Group will wind
down this quarter and plans to have final comments and/or proposed
recommendations for the Committee's consideration. The Modernized Entry
Processes Working Group is scheduled to meet this quarter in July and
August with the goal of winding down this quarter and plans to finalize
its discussions on National Customs Automation Programs and Broker
Cybersecurity. Proposed recommendations are anticipated from the
Modernized Entry Processes Working Group. The Customs Interagency
Industry Working Group did not meet this quarter and does not plan to
submit any proposed recommendations.
3. The Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee will provide updates on six
of its seven active working groups. The Export Modernization Working
Group has met three times this quarter. It continues to focus on
defining Progressive Filing, discussions regarding the proposed Rail
Electronic Export Manifest notice of proposed rulemaking, and upcoming
notices of proposed rulemaking for ocean and other transportation modes
and the accompanying operational guides. It will wind down this quarter
and plans to have final comments and/or proposed recommendations that
formalize and reflect its work. The Drawback Task Force has met three
times this quarter and plans to complete all of the work that was
established on its task list when the group was established in 2024,
ahead of the public meeting in September. Specifically, the group has
finalized its discussions regarding error validation code streamlining.
Additionally, the group plans to discuss drawback for recycled items,
provide additional ideas for Document Image System codes for ease of
use by drawback specialists, develop recommendations for a new process
for amending and perfecting drawback claims, and expand on previous
conversations for the treatment of sets for unused merchandise
substitution drawback per 19 U.S.C. 1313(j)(2). The Drawback Task Force
will wind down this quarter and plans to have final comments and/or
proposed recommendations for the September public meeting. The De
Minimis Working Group discussion this quarter has centered around U.S.
Customs and Border Protection's enforcement of the $800 limit per
person per day and on the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration import
requirements that were released this quarter with immediate effect on
the trade. The De Minimis Working Group will wind down this quarter and
plans to have final comments and/or proposed recommendations. The
Centers Working Group will wind down this quarter. The Foreign Trade
Zone/Warehouse Working Group has completed its initial review of the
foreign trade zone regulations (19 CFR part 146). The working group
will wind down this quarter and plans to have final comments and/or
proposed recommendations for Foreign Trade Zones and bonded warehouses
for submission at the Committee's public meeting in September. The
Cross-Border Recognition Working Group has not met this quarter and
remains on hiatus. The Trade Partnership and Engagement Working Group
is winding down this quarter and plans to have final comments and/or
proposed recommendations for an updated handbook for the Customs Trade
Partnership Against Terrorism Trade Compliance Program and proposed
recommendations for the September meeting with respect to efficiencies
and eliminating redundancies in the Customs Trade Partnership Against
Terrorism program. The Pipeline Working Group has been discussing
deployment of a National Customs Automation Program test of data
acquisition using Global Interoperability Standards for tracking
pipeline-borne crude oil and will wind down this quarter.
Meeting materials will be available on September 8, 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>.
Laurie B. Dempsey,
Acting Executive Director, Office of Trade Relations.
[FR Doc. 2025-16175 Filed 8-22-25; 8:45 am]
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