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DHS trains non-customs agencies on how to tell real risk from phantom risk
US Homeland Security (DHS) is working with a dozen non-customs federal agencies to help them better understand what is a high-risk consignment and what can be cleared quickly.
Work is done with the US Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture to help them meet mandate for the completion of the International Trade Data System by 2017, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
The system, often referred to as the "single window" will allow brokers and shippers to transmit necessary documents electronically in minutes instead of waiting for days and should reduce the need to file duplicate paperwork, saving shippers time and money.
Federal agencies that can hold or slow cargo clearance must streamline procedures and data collection and handling and distill it into risk-management techniques.
There are 47 agencies that can slow and hold cargo, but customs acts on behalf of most of them, leaving rules from a dozen others that US Customs cannot override.
Those agencies have oversight over much cargo. The FDA, for example, regulates 30 per cent of the imported goods, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulates nearly all retail inbound goods.
Customs does a generally good job, but other federal agencies don't view speed as priority, resulting in needless delays, said American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) CEO Marianne Rowden.
Because of this, the AAEI wants to assist the Border Interagency Executive Council, tasked with fine-tuning their risk models. In a white paper, titled "Blueprint to Trust," AAEI outlines a trusted trader programme for federal agencies.
In creating an importer risk profile, the shipper group recommends factoring the type of shipper and its experience in importing, the type of inbound shipment, where the import originates and the shipper's compliance record.
Work is done with the US Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture to help them meet mandate for the completion of the International Trade Data System by 2017, reports Newark's Journal of Commerce.
The system, often referred to as the "single window" will allow brokers and shippers to transmit necessary documents electronically in minutes instead of waiting for days and should reduce the need to file duplicate paperwork, saving shippers time and money.
Federal agencies that can hold or slow cargo clearance must streamline procedures and data collection and handling and distill it into risk-management techniques.
There are 47 agencies that can slow and hold cargo, but customs acts on behalf of most of them, leaving rules from a dozen others that US Customs cannot override.
Those agencies have oversight over much cargo. The FDA, for example, regulates 30 per cent of the imported goods, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission regulates nearly all retail inbound goods.
Customs does a generally good job, but other federal agencies don't view speed as priority, resulting in needless delays, said American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) CEO Marianne Rowden.
Because of this, the AAEI wants to assist the Border Interagency Executive Council, tasked with fine-tuning their risk models. In a white paper, titled "Blueprint to Trust," AAEI outlines a trusted trader programme for federal agencies.
In creating an importer risk profile, the shipper group recommends factoring the type of shipper and its experience in importing, the type of inbound shipment, where the import originates and the shipper's compliance record.
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