Single Window. Each Party shall endeavour to develop or maintain single window systems to facilitate a single, electronic submission of all information required by its customs laws, other laws and regulations for the exportation, importation and transit of goods.
Single Window. 1. Each Party shall establish or maintain a single window system that enables the electronic submission through a single entry point of the documentation and data the Party requires for importation into its territory.
2. Each Party shall review the operations of its single window system with a view to expanding its functionality to cover all its import, export, and transit transactions.
3. Each Party shall, in a timely manner, inform a person that is using its single window system of the status of the release of goods, through the single window system.
4. Ifa Party receives documentation or data for a good or shipment of goods through its single window system, the Party shall not request the same documentation or data for that good or shipment of goods, except in urgent circumstances or pursuant to other limited exceptions set out in its laws, regulations, or procedures. Each Party shall minimize the extent to which paper documents are required if electronic copies are provided.
5. In building and maintaining its single window system, each Party shall:
(a) incorporate, as appropriate, the World Customs Organization Data Model for data elements;
(b) endeavor to implement standards and data elements for import, export, and transit that are the same as the other Parties' single window system; and
(c) on an ongoing basis, streamline its single window system, including by adding functionality to facilitate trade, improve transparency, and reduce release times and costs.
6. In implementing paragraph 5, the Parties shall:
(a) share with each other their respective experiences in developing and maintaining their single window system; and
(b) work towards a harmonization, to the extent possible, of data elements and customs processes that facilitate use of a single transmission of information to both the exporting and importing Party.
Single Window. 1. Each Party shall establish or maintain a single window system that enables the electronic submission through a single entry point of the documentation and data the Party requires for importation into, exportation from, and transit through its territory.
2. Each Party shall, in a timely manner, inform a person that is using its single window system of the status of the release of goods, through the single window system.
3. In building and maintaining its single window system, each Party shall:
(a) incorporate, as appropriate, the World Customs Organization Data Model for data elements;
(b) endeavor to implement standards and data elements for import, export, and transit that are the same as the other Party’s single window system;
(c) on an ongoing basis, streamline its single window system, including by adding functionality to facilitate trade, improve transparency, and reduce release times and costs; and
(d) endeavor to implement a reference number to uniquely identify data related to individual transactions.
4. In implementing paragraph 3, the Parties shall:
(a) share with each other their respective experiences in developing and maintaining their single window system; and
(b) work towards a harmonization, to the extent possible, of data elements and customs processes that facilitate use of a single transmission of information to both the exporting and importing Party.
5. Each Party shall endeavor to allow traders and other stakeholders to use the services of authorized private entities to exchange data with the single window system.
6. Each Party shall take into consideration the specific interests of small and medium enterprises when allowing them to use authorized private service providers to submit data to the single window.
Single Window. 1. To avoid repeated submissions of documentation and/or data requirements for exportation, importation and transit to different authorities or agencies, each Party shall maintain or establish a single window7 through which the aforementioned documentation and/or data requirements only have to be submitted online once in electronic form. The single window shall undertake onward distribution of the aforementioned documentation and/or data requirements to the relevant authorities or agencies which require them. After the examination by the relevant authorities or agencies of the documentation and/or data, the single window shall notify the results to the applicants in a timely manner. A single window is defined as an electronic online facility that allows parties involved in trade and transport to lodge standardised documentation and/or data with a single entry point to fulfil all import, export, and transit-related regulatory requirements.
2. In cases where documentation and/or data requirements have already been received by the single window, the same documentation and/or data requirements shall not be requested by other authorities or agencies except in urgent circumstances and other limited exceptions which are made public.
3. The Parties shall use information and communication technology to support the single window.
Single Window. 4.1 Members shall endeavour to establish or maintain a single window, enabling traders to submit documentation and/or data requirements for importation, exportation, or transit of goods through a single entry point to the participating authorities or agencies. After the examination by the participating authorities or agencies of the documentation and/or data, the results shall be notified to the applicants through the single window in a timely manner.
4.2 In cases where documentation and/or data requirements have already been received through the single window, the same documentation and/or data requirements shall not be requested by participating authorities or agencies except in urgent circumstances and other limited exceptions which are made public.
4.3 Members shall notify the Committee of the details of operation of the single window.
4.4 Members shall, to the extent possible and practicable, use information technology to support the single window.
Single Window. 1. Each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall establish or maintain a single window system that enables the electronic submission through a single entry point of the forms, documentation, and data the authorities of the territory represented by the Party require of importers for importation prior to the arrival of goods to the territory represented by the Party.
2. Each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall provide for the processing of the electronic submissions described in paragraph 1 prior to the arrival of goods to the territory represented by the Party to:
(a) perform an assessment of risk; and
(b) expedite the release of low-risk goods.
3. Each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall, whenever practicable, utilize available data provided by information technology systems or sensors embedded on vehicles, shipping containers, or packing materials or otherwise with the shipment to:
(a) perform an assessment of risk; and
(b) expedite the release of low-risk goods.
4. Each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall, in a timely manner, inform the submitter of import information through its single window system of the status of the release of the imported goods.
5. If the authorities of the territory represented by a Party do not promptly release an import, the Party, through its Designated Representative, shall inform the importer and shall include in the notification, to the extent permitted by the law of the territory represented by the Party, the reasons why the goods are not released and which authority of that territory, if not the customs administration, has withheld release of the goods.
6. In building and maintaining the single window system described in paragraph 1, each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall endeavor to streamline the system on an ongoing basis, including by adding functionality to eventually cover export and transit transactions, facilitate trade, improve transparency, and reduce release times and costs associated with import, export, and transit through the territory represented by the Party.
7. Each Party, through its Designated Representative, shall provide that a submitter may, without penalty:
(a) correct a non-fraudulent error2 in a submission to the single window system described in paragraph 1 within a reasonable amount of time;
Single Window. 4.1 Members shall endeavour to establish or maintain a single window, enabling traders to submit documentation and/or data requirements for importation, exportation, or transit of goods through a single entry point to the participating authorities or agencies. After the examination by the participating authorities or agencies of the documentation and/or data, the results shall be notified to the applicants through the single window in a timely manner.
Single Window. 1. Each Party shall establish or maintain a single window, enabling traders to submit documentation or data required for importation, exportation or transit of goods through a single entry point to the relevant authorities or agencies. After the examination by the relevant authorities or agencies of the documentation or data, the results shall be notified to the applicants through the single window in a timely manner.
2. In cases where required documentation or data has already been received through the single window, the same documentation or data shall not be requested by the relevant authorities or agencies except in urgent circumstances and other limited exceptions which are made public.
3. The Parties shall endeavour to promote the interoperability between the national single windows, which allows the creation of conditions for the mutual recognition of electronic documents and data necessary to carry out trade activities. For these purposes, the Parties shall endeavour to develop institutional, legal and technical bases to ensure information exchange between the national single windows.
Single Window. Have you notified longer timeframes for the more difficult provisions to implement under Categories B or C? Which provisions are notified for longer timeframes? Which ones are under shorter timeframes?
Single Window. TFA Article 10.4 encourages members to establish and maintain a single window, which the agreement describes as “enabling traders to submit documentation and/or data requirements for importation, exportation, or transit of goods through a single entry point to the participating authorities or agencies.” This TFA provision is in line with congressional negotiating objectives, and was also a priority for the Obama Administration. On February 19, 2014, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx signed an executive order directing that U.S. agencies with a role in international trade must complete development of an electronic “single window” through which “businesses will transmit data required by participating agencies for the importation and exportation of cargo.” The order further required that all participating agencies have “capabilities, agreements, and other requirements in place” by December 31, 2016.37 The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-125, §106) provided additional funding to “complete the development and implementation” of ACE, and required CBP to submit a report detailing its progress on ACE, ITDS and other customs modernization systems to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committee, also by December 31, 2016.38 A follow-up report is due by September 31, 2017. The legislation also required a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the deployment of ACE by 33 U.S. Customs and Border Protection website: xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/border-security/ports-entry/cargo-security/c-tpat- customs-trade-partnership-against-terrorism. 34 PGAs include the Census Bureau, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Federal Aviation Administration, The Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency. 35 The ITDS was mandated by Section 405 of P.L. 109-347, the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006. See also CBP website, “ACEopedia December 2016), xxxxx://xxx.xxx.xxx/document/report/aceopedia. 36 World Economic Forum and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, The Global Enabling Trade Report, 2016, p. 309, xxxx://xxx.xx/getr16. 37 Executive Order 13659, "Streamlining the Export/Import Process for America's Businesses," 79 Federal Register 10657, February 19, 2014. 38 The report to Congress had not been received as of this writing. December 31, 2017. Section 107 of the act further required that each agency use the ITDS as its primary means of receiving import and export information and docume...
