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Department of Homeland Security  Customs and Border Protection

Department of Homeland Security  Customs and Border Protection. Centers of Excellence and Expertise. What are Centers of Excellence and Expertise?. Industry-focused and account-based points of virtual processing for post-release trade activities

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Department of Homeland Security  Customs and Border Protection

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  1. Department of Homeland Security  Customs and Border Protection Centers of Excellence and Expertise

  2. What are Centers of Excellence and Expertise? • Industry-focused and account-based points of virtual processing for post-release trade activities • Aligned by 10 key industry sectors in strategic location • Consolidate existing expertise and build industry-specific education to authoritatively facilitate trade • Provide national overview of participating accounts to identify areas for further facilitation or corrective action • Serve as a resource to the broader trade community and to CBP’s U.S. government partners 2

  3. Why Centers? • Objective: • Focus on industry-specific issues • Facilitation • Reduce transaction costs • Increase compliance • Increase uniformity of treatment • Past processing: • Company imports into 60 ports of entry • 60 ports conduct entry summary reviews • Centers • Company imports into 60 ports of entry • Single Center conducts entry summary reviews 3

  4. CEE Strategic Vision and End State • Pre-arrival, arrival, and cargo release • Port Directors: arrival and manifest processing; release authority for narcotics, terrorism, agriculture, and other security risks • Centers will perform all trade processing post-release • Entry summary review/verification, liquidation, protest, reconciliation, drawback, liquidated damage and penalty initiation, commercial fraud case development, collaboration with HSI • Supply chain security • Centers will partner with Supply Chain Security Specialists in basic supply chain management • Policy analysis • Centers will provide subject-matter expertise to HQ policymakers on decisions affecting the Centers’ industry; ensure policy is executed uniformly

  5. What are the benefits? 5

  6. Background: Current Status (1/10/14) Current Status (05/22/14)

  7. Background: End Status End Status • Estimated Importers of Record by Center once fully implemented

  8. Centers of Excellence and ExpertiseCall (866) 295-7624 to connect with your Center of interest Industrial & Manufacturing Materials Automotive & Aerospace Pharmaceuticals, Health & Chemicals Base Metals Apparel, Footwear & Textiles Electronics Consumer Products & Mass Merchandising Machinery Agriculture & Prepared Products Petroleum, Natural Gas & Minerals

  9. CEE@cbp.dhs.gov CEE mailbox

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