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CBP is unlikely to publicly list every entity that it determines engages in forced labor, said Ana Hinojosa, the former executive director of CBP's Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate. Although importers want CBP to provide them with a comprehensive list of potential companies not to work with, Hinojosa said it would be “an impossibility” based on how quickly companies change names after getting caught.
The Senate Finance Committee's chairman and ranking member said it's time to turn their attention to customs modernization, with both saying any bill will need to both enhance enforcement and make legitimate trade move faster and with more certainty.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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Wiley attorney Tim Brightbill, in a recent webinar on what to expect in trade in 2023, said he expects a bill to make significant changes to antidumping and countervailing duty law to be introduced in Congress soon. The bill, colloquially known as Level the Playing Field Act 2.0, was introduced in the previous Congress by Ohio's two senators. The administration expressed support for the proposal, but it faced skepticism among Republicans in Congress (see 2204220036 and 2104160037).
CBP updated its ACE manufacturer ID Error Code Dictionary to add new condition codes related to the deployment of a new Chinese postal code requirement on March 18. New codes cover instances where the Chinese postal code is invalid or none is submitted, as well as where the postal code is in the Xinjiang Uyghur Administrative Region of China, among other things. The new Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act “Region Alert” will require the Chinese postal code to be submitted with the cargo release and included in the MID for entries with a country of origin of China that use a Chinese MID (see 2301270070).