Notice2025-16175

Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee

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Published
August 25, 2025

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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&#160;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&#160;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&#160;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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