CBP to Provide Preliminary Notifications of UFLPA Holds to CTPAT Trade Compliance Members
CBP is providing an additional benefit to Trade Compliance program members of its Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, the agency said in a letter to CTPAT members posted to the agency’s website April 26. Since March 5, the agency has been offering preliminary notifications of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act holds, CBP said.
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For CTPAT Trade Compliance members, CBP will, to the best of its ability, provide “advanced notice of a possible hold, detention, exclusion and/or seizure of merchandise after the entry is filed for cargo arriving in the United States and subject to” UFLPA, CBP said. The preliminary notifications will be provided to the points of contact for the CTPAT Trade Compliance account who have the “’email notification’ box marked to receive notifications,” CBP said.
“The notification will include the entry number and associated lines that may be subject to a detention, exclusion, and/or seizure due to the enforcement requirements of the UFLPA,” CBP said. CBP cautioned that it “will be unable to provide further information beyond what is provided in the notification,” and that the notification “does not denote any final decision made by CBP but may be used by the importer to prepare for a possible shipment hold, detention, exclusion and/or seizure,” the agency said.