Sec. 102. Establishment of single window import and export cargo processing release system
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In order to advance the national economic security, trade enforcement, and trade facilitation missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and partner government agencies of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall ensure that a scalable, uniform automated platform provides a system for the processing and release of cargo being imported into and exported from the United States. The system required by subsection
(a)shall include the following elements: Incorporation of whole-of-Government trade processing capabilities, including capabilities relating to processing cargo manifests, collection of advance import and export data, uniform cargo admissibility and release processes, entry summaries, and cargo financial data, in the Automated Commercial Environment, or any successor system, to conform with the admissibility criteria of— the Automated Commercial Environment, or any successor system; and all agencies— participating in the International Trade Data System established under section 411(d) of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1411(d) ); and represented on the Border Interagency Executive Council, established in section 101. Continued collaboration with the head of each agency participating in the International Trade Data System to make efforts to ensure that— if data required by a partner government agency is already available in the Automated Commercial Environment, or any successor system, as a result of a requirement of U.S. Customs and Border Protection or another agency, the system will populate that data for the purpose of reporting the data to the partner government agency and the data will not need to be reported again through a separate submission, unless U.S. Customs and Border Protection or the partner government agency determines an additional submission is necessary to confirm the accuracy of data received from 2 or more sources; the Automated Commercial Environment, or a successor system, provides a partner government agency with any data that is needed to facilitate the coordination and efficient execution of inspections conducted by that partner government agency; a partner government agency interested in obtaining import and export data and conducting or directing its own inspections is able to do so through the manifest and entry functionality of the Automated Commercial Environment, or a successor system, and in real time when entries and manifests are submitted, rather than as a redelivery process when cargo may have already been delivered; and a partner government agency interested in obtaining clearance data clearly indicates all headings and subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States that are subject to its jurisdiction, such that the agency is identified when any such heading or subheading of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule is submitted into the Automated Commercial Environment or a successor system. Any other feature determined by the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to be necessary to substantially advance the national economic security, trade enforcement, and trade facilitation missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and partner government agencies. Not later 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall complete an assessment of whether a technology solution that is capable of delivering the system required by subsection
(a)is commercially available. If the Commissioner decides not to acquire a commercially available technology to satisfy the system requirement of subsection (a), the Commissioner shall submit to Congress a report that includes a description of— if applicable, the determination that— developing the system required by subsection
(a)is more cost effective than acquiring such system from a commercial source; and a system developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection can more adequately address the needs of partner government agencies and the trade community than a system acquired from a commercial source; and the manner by which the Commissioner will provide the system required by subsection
(a)within the timeline and meeting the requirements set forth in subsection (d). Not later than 1 year after the date on which amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 104 are first made available to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Commissioner shall implement the system required by subsection (a). In implementing the system required by subsection (a), the Commissioner shall— collaborate with the Trade Support Network and other members of the trade community as the Commissioner considers appropriate; ensure that the system provides the same or greater functionality as any system being replaced by the system required by subsection (a), to include functionality with respect to the ability of partner government agencies and the trade community to conduct ordinary business; ensure that the system provides the features envisioned in the 21st Century Customs Framework of U.S. Customs and Border Protection; and
(D)if unable to timely provide a feature of the system required by this section, consult with the Trade Support Network and other members of the trade community, as the Commissioner considers appropriate, to provide a feature of equal importance. Chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to this section or to other efforts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collaborate with members of the trade community with respect to the development of the system required by subsection (a). Section 411(d)(4)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 ( 19 U.S.C. 1411(d)(4)(A) ) is amended— in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking and the Interagency Steering Committee and inserting , the Interagency Steering Committee, and the Border Interagency Executive Council (established by section 101 of the ; Customs Facilitation Act of 2025 ), as appropriate, and in consultation with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, Trade Support Network, and other members of the trade community as the Secretary considers necessary, in clause (i), by striking the semicolon and inserting ; and ; in clause (ii), by striking the semicolon and inserting a period; and by striking clauses
(iii)and (iv).
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Establishment of single window import and export cargo processing release system
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