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CBP's plans for a new data element in ACE cargo release for the Chinese postal code are “on hold,” the agency said in a CSMS message Nov. 1. “The deployment for Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Region Alert is postponed until further notice,” CBP said. “The Office of Trade is actively working with impacted users to address concerns. A follow up CSMS message will be issued once a new deployment date is determined.”
CBP plans to add a new mandatory data element for entries of goods that originate in China as part of its efforts to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act. The agency will on Dec. 15 deploy a new “UFLPA Region Alert” capability in ACE, a CBP spokesperson said Oct. 26, making “postal code” a “required field” when “Country of Origin is China for Entry and for Manufacturer Identification Code (MID) creation,” according to a recent update to the agency’s ACE development schedule.
CBP will delay until Dec. 15 its deployment of a new mandatory data element in ACE for goods with a country of origin of China, said a CBP spokesperson Oct. 26. The new UFLPA Region Alert capability in ACE will use a new mandatory data element for the Chinese manufacturer’s postal code to generate a warning message when a Uyghur region postal code has been provided, according to an earlier update to the agency’s ACE development schedule that had listed a scheduled deployment in November.
CBP has released shipments targeted under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act based on “applicability," where the importer successfully proves the goods aren’t subject to the UFLPA because they aren’t connected to the Xinjiang region of China, a CBP official said. However, the agency has yet to see an attempt to prove goods subject to UFLPA aren’t made with forced labor, the official said.
CBP targeted 491 entries worth more than $158.6 million for suspected forced labor in September, CBP said in an operational update. That’s down from the 838 entries valued at over $266.5 million in August (see 2209210080). The number includes goods subject to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) and withhold release orders, CBP said. CBP also said in its September operational update that it seized nearly 1,623 shipments that contained counterfeit goods worth more than $205 million for the month, and also completed 80 audits that identified $58.4 million in duties and fees owed to the U.S. government from goods improperly declared.
Trade participants in the 21st Century Customs Framework “focus group” are set to meet with CBP and other government officials Oct. 17 and 18 to discuss a series of proposed statutory changes developed over recent weeks that aim to incorporate facilitation measures into upcoming customs modernization legislation.
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Two House Republicans, including the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote to the CBP commissioner to ask him to explain how CBP screens products containing Chinese critical minerals, and to detail "the methodologies used to gather intelligence about forced labor in critical mineral supply chains and whether you believe these methodologies are sufficient?"
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