CBP Announces New Simplified Entry Pilot Participants

CBP selected 11 cargo release/simplified entry pilot participants, the agency said. The new participants are: Alliance Customs Clearance Inc., Barthco International Inc. dba OHL International, CEVA Logistics, CSI Weiss-Rohlig USA Inc., Damco Customs Services, Inc., DHL Express, Inc. (USA), Future Forwarding Company, NEC Corporation of America, Scarbrough International, Ltd., Schenker, Inc., and UTC Overseas, Inc.

CBP also expanded the pilot to ten additional airports: Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Miami, JFK, Newark and Boston. In early November CBP will further expand the pilot to three additional ports, Detroit, Memphis, and Anchorage, said CBP. As of Oct. 23, over 28,000 Simplified Entries have been filed for over 580 importers of record, it said.

(See ITT's Online Archives 12081319 for summary of CBP's plans to expand the simplified entry pilot.