CBP Announces Port Expansions for Simplified Entry

The Seattle port became the newest addition to the Simplified Entry (SE) pilot program, receiving its first SE on Aug. 14, CBP said Aug. 15. CBP recently announced its plans to expand the pilot to other ports and participants and to revise applicant criteria. CBP said the "expansion to the ports of San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles will follow soon thereafter. A subsequent expansion to the south and southeast, including Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston and Miami, will happen in mid-September, to be quickly followed by an expansion to the northeast including Newark, New York/JFK and Boston."

CBP said it's also working to expand the pilot functionality in the future to include additional capabilities: the Participating Government Agency (PGA) Message Set, the Simplified Entry transaction set, Single Transaction Bonds, automatic cancellations and deletions and the Document Image System. CBP will also work to include Remote Location Filing (RLF) in future pilot deployments, it said. As of August 10, 7,914 Simplified Entries have been filed for 338 importers of record, said CBP.

(See ITT's Online Archives 12081319 for summary of the Aug. 14 Federal Register notice on the expansion.)