CBP Releases Draft from COAC Residue Work Group

CBP released a draft of discussion items from the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) working group on residue. Several issues are discussed in the draft, including bonds and a carrier’s ability to determine quantity and value. These issues and others will be discussed at the Aug. 15 COAC meeting in Seattle. See future issues of ITT for further coverage of the the draft.

Residue has become a big issue surrounding the Sept. 29 transition to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1), after which CBP has said it would enforce new rules on the importation of instruments of international traffic (IIT) and residue. In July 2009, CBP published HQ H026715 in the Customs Bulletin, to require chemical residue imported in reusable containers be classified, entered, and manifested, while the containers themselves continue to be considered IIT.

(See ITT's Online Archives 12060617 for summary of CBP Executive Director of Cargo and Conveyance Security Dan Baldwin's discussion of the issue and planned emphasis on implementation rather than enforcement.)