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Industrial and Manufacturing Materials (IMM) Center of Excellence and Expertise Tammy Gonyo Import Specialist IWPA Convention March 6, 2014 St. Petersburg, FL
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Industrial and Manufacturing Materials (IMM) Center of Excellence and Expertise
Tammy Gonyo Import Specialist
IWPA Convention
March 6, 2014 St. Petersburg, FL
The Role of the Import Specialist
§ Classifying
§ Appraising
§ Enforcing Laws protecting public Health and Safety
§ Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
§ Fair Trade practices
§ Criminal Enforcement – smuggling, commercial fraud, counterfeiting
§ Specialized Training to develop expert knowledge of import and export trends, commodities, and industries, as well as complex trade agreements
What do we do?
What are Centers? § Virtual organizations that leverage
technology to bring work to the Center
§ Coordinated from a strategic location
§ Aligned by key industry sectors
§ Bring existing expertise together to authoritatively facilitate trade
§ Provide a single point of processing for participating importers
§ Serve as resource to the broader trade community and to CBP’s U.S. government partners
CEE
San Francisco Apparel, Footwear & Textiles
Los Angeles Electronics
Laredo Machinery
Current Centers of Excellence and Expertise
Houston Petroleum, Natural Gas & Minerals
Miami Agriculture & Prepared Products
Atlanta Consumer Products & Mass Merchandising
Chicago Base Metals
Detroit Automotive & Aerospace
Buffalo Industrial & Manufacturing Materials
New York Pharmaceuticals Health & Chemicals
• Company imports into 60 Ports of Entry
• ONE Center conducts all entry summary reviews
• Company imports into 60 Ports of Entry
• 60 ports conduct entry summary reviews
Previously
Center Operations
How Centers Operate
§ Respond to the dynamic trade environment
§ Bring all of CBP expertise together on a single industry at the national level
§ Deliver greater consistency and harmonization
§ Align CBP processes with modern business practices
§ Enhance industry-based knowledge
§ Implement manage-by-account practices
Why Centers?
Intellectual Property Rights
Anti-Dumping Countervailing
Duties (ADCVD)Import Safety
Textiles
Revenue
Agriculture
Trade Agreements/Preference Programs
Trade Complexity
Goals of Centers 1) Facilitate legitimate trade through effective risk segmentation
- Utilize account based methods to process trade - Expand partnerships - move more importers to trusted trader status - Develop and implement comprehensive strategies to manage risk
2) Increase industry-based knowledge within CBP - Advance bi-directional education to raise industry knowledge - Engage industry groups and key stakeholders
3) Enhance enforcement and address industry risks - Leverage industry to identify issues of mutual interest to provide CBP with targeting,
enforcement, and/or intelligence information - Coordinate enforcement efforts by industry to address unique risks
Factory Road Transport
Distribution Center
Road Transport Port of Lading Vessel Transit Port VesselPort of
DischargeRoad
TransportRetail
Distribution Center
Carrier filesImporter Security Filing & Manifest
CBP security targeting
CBP admissibility determination
·∙ One-‐Point Processing Trusted importers have one location for post-‐ entry processing
·∙ Enhance Intelligence Enhances industry intelligence, resulting in more effective enforcement
·∙ Bi-‐Directional Education Environment for in-‐depth learning to increase CBP expertise and enforcement efforts
·∙ Direct Line of Communication Small/medium sized importers have a place to go for resolving concerns, and asking questions
·∙ Hold Resolution Center
Trusted importers have one place to go to resolve issues with their held shipments
Trad
e Be
nefits
CBP Be
nefits
·∙ Effective Enforcement Improved enforcement results due to the focused industry expertise in import safety, IPR and revenue
Importer files Entry, Entry Summary & payment of duties
Benefits of Centers
Center Myths § I’m not C-TPAT or ISA, the Centers aren’t for me
§ I’m not filing in ACE, I can’t be part of the Centers
§ I’m automatically going to be part of the Center’s managed accounts
§ I’m going to have to change where I import because of the Center
§ I import products in multiple industries, I’m going to have to apply to every Center
Branches within a Center
1) Partnership
2) Validation & Compliance
3) Enforcement
Leon Hayward, Director
Ann Marie Paul Center Director o
Industrial & Manufacturing Materials 726 Exchange Street, Suite 400
Buffalo, NY 14210
Pharmaceu5cal, Health and Chemical Center
IMM Center of Excellence and Expertise
“We are the building blocks”
IMM CEE Industry Defined
§ Plastics
§ Rubber
§ Glass
§ Wood
§ Paper
§ Stone, Cement & Plaster
§ Precious Metals & Stones
§ Leather
IMM CEE Operational Information • Milestone Dates
– April 15, 2013: Center initiates operations – June 14, 2013: CBP HQ notifies three test applicants on their selection as test
participants in the IMM CEE – July 8, 2013: Center begins post entry processing for the three test participants – Feb. 28, 2014: Center accepted several additional test participants
• Location – Buffalo, NY
• Current Staff – 28 TDY Staff representing various CBP OFO & OT disciplines – 9 Core staff responsible for day to day Center operations – 19 Matrix staff utilized on an “as needed” basis – Matrix staff will be converted to Core as workload increases
IMM CEE Import Highlights § $139.4 billion in industrial and manufacturing materials come into
the U.S. (4.5% of all imported value)
§ Top 5 countries of origin account for 79% of these imports Ø Canada ($31.6 billion) Ø Mexico ($16.3 billion) Ø China ($15 billion) Ø Israel ($8.8 billion) Ø India ($6.7 billion)
IMM CEE - Import Value
< $10M $10M - $1B > $1B
Bill
ions
$27.5
$70.4
$41.5
$0
$20
$40
$60
$80
Small Medium Large
IMM Top Ten POE by Value FY13
$0
$200,000,000
$400,000,000
$600,000,000
$800,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,200,000,000
$1,400,000,000
$1,600,000,000
Entered value of wood products by Port of Entry
IMM Mode of Transportation by value/percent for wood products
$0
$1,000,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$3,000,000,000
$4,000,000,000
$5,000,000,000
$6,000,000,000
Vessel Rail Road Air
Vessel $5,435,484,749 41.30% Rail $4,425,274,925 33.63%
Road $3,212,701,070 24.41% Air $56,351,133 0.43%
IMM FY13 Entered Value for Lumber,
Plywood and Flooring
$0
$500,000,000
$1,000,000,000
$1,500,000,000
$2,000,000,000
$2,500,000,000
$3,000,000,000
$3,500,000,000
$4,000,000,000
Lumber Plywood Flooring
Total entered value for three categories
Contact Information § IMM CEE
§ Email: [email protected] § Phone: 716-843-8504
§ Validation & Compliance § Sharon Swiatek – Acting Assistant Director & (Acting Branch Chief – Partnership)
§ [email protected] § Office:716-843-8453 BlackBerry: 716-908-8544
§ Ed Wachovec – Acting Branch Chief – Validation & Compliance/Enforcement § [email protected] § Office: 440-891-2534 BlackBerry: 216-640-4463
§ Enforcement & Partnership § Bob Bekalarski – Acting Assistant Director
§ [email protected] § Office: 716-626-6432 BlackBerry: 716-908-8914
