CBP Announces COAC Meeting Date, Releases Agenda

The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. in Washington, CBP said in a notice.

The COAC will hear from the following subcommittees on the topics listed below and then will review, deliberate, and formulate recommendations on how to proceed on those topics:

• The COAC Survey Team: Review and discuss the preliminary results of the COAC 2014 Trade Efficiency Survey, which combined exports and imports into one survey.
• The Exports Subcommittee: Review and discuss the findings from two of the seven planned sub-workgroups (Air Manifest and Commodity Licensing) formed under the Export Process Work Group, and the collaboration between the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Federal Advisory Committee, the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration.
• The One U.S. Government at the Border Subcommittee: Review and discuss the progress of the Import Mapping Working Group and potential collaboration with the Border Inter-Agency Executive Council. The One U.S. Government Food and Drug Administration Working Group will provide findings and recommendations.
• The Trade Enforcement and Revenue Collection Subcommittee: Review and discuss the recommendations on the Intellectual Property Rights Working Group’s work on the voluntary disclosure proposal and its utility for trade targeting; report and recommendations of the AD/CVD Working Group; and report on the Bonds Working Group’s discussions on the concept of e-bonds.
• The Trusted Trader Subcommittee: Update and discuss the C-TPAT Exporter Entity and the Trusted Trader Program pilot.
• The Trade Modernization Subcommittee: Updates and discussion on ACE, Centers of Excellence and Expertise as well as Role of the Customs Broker activities will take place.
• The Global Supply Chain Subcommittee: Updates and discussion regarding the Beyond the Border activities with Canada and 21st Century activities with Mexico will take place.