CBP Working on Export Training for Ports To Increase Uniformity
CBP expects to soon deploy a new training module for its port staff that it hopes will enhance uniformity in how local CBP officials enforce export laws and regulations, Jim Swanson, CBP Office of Field Operations director-cargo security and controls,…
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said at the July 27 meeting of the Customs Commercial Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) in Boston. The agency is about “two-thirds through the process,” and hopes to “deliver” the training module “next fiscal year,” he said. “We’ve got a bunch of training documentation and we’re looking at consolidating that down and trying to build a national subject matter base so we can build uniformity.” Swanson announced the new training module shortly after the COAC adopted a recommendation that CBP develop training that “should lead to standard operating procedures for processing export cargo in a uniform and efficient manner nationally.” The recommendation was meant to bring about “uniformity that we’d like to see at different ports,” said Heidi Bray, trade co-chair of the COAC export subcommittee.