Customs Facilitation Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes the Border Interagency Executive Council as an interagency working group to coordinate customs, trade, health, safety, and conservation agencies to improve supply chain processes and facilitate legitimate, requires DHS Secretary to establish a scalable, uniform automated platform (Automated Commercial Environment) for processing and release of import/export cargo, incorporating whole-of-government trade processing, and requires continuous modernization of the Automated Commercial Environment with trade community consultation, including regular meetings to solicit feedback on system enhancements. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, exemptions, and definition changes. The main policy areas are Trade, Animal Welfare, Sports Regulation, and Transportation.
Who Benefits and How
Exporters could face reduced risk, Importers could face lower compliance burdens, and Customs brokers could face reduced risk.
Who Bears the Burden and How
U.S. Customs and Border Protection would take on compliance duties, Government Accountability Office would take on compliance duties, and Federal officials imposing trade data requirements would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Establishes the Border Interagency Executive Council as an interagency working group to coordinate customs, trade, health, safety, and conservation agencies to improve supply chain processes and facilitate legitimate...
- Requires DHS Secretary to establish a scalable, uniform automated platform (Automated Commercial Environment) for processing and release of import/export cargo, incorporating whole-of-government trade processing...
- Requires continuous modernization of the Automated Commercial Environment with trade community consultation, including regular meetings to solicit feedback on system enhancements.
- Authorizes appropriations to DHS for FY2026 and thereafter to carry out improvements to the uniform cargo processing platform and Automated Commercial Environment.
- Creates allows qualified importers to receive estimated drawback (duty refund) payments while liquidation is pending, eliminates pre-export notification requirements, and establishes procedures for reconciling estimated...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes the Border Interagency Executive Council as an interagency working group to coordinate customs, trade, health, safety, and conservation agencies to improve supply chain processes and facilitate legitimate, requires DHS Secretary to establish a scalable, uniform automated platform (Automated Commercial Environment) for processing and release of import/export cargo, incorporating whole-of-government trade processing, and requires continuous modernization of the Automated Commercial Environment with trade community consultation, including regular meetings to solicit feedback on system enhancements.
Key Policy Areas
Trade, Animal Welfare, Sports Regulation, Transportation
Primary Purpose
The bill establishes the Border Interagency Executive Council as an interagency working group to coordinate customs, trade, health, safety, and conservation agencies to improve supply chain processes and facilitate legitimate, requires DHS Secretary to establish a scalable, uniform automated platform (Automated Commercial Environment) for processing and release of import/export cargo, incorporating whole-of-government trade processing, and requires continuous modernization of the Automated Commercial Environment with trade community consultation, including regular meetings to solicit feedback on system enhancements.
Policy Domains
Title I - Interstate Compact and RHSO
Identified Gains
- Exporters
- Importers
- Customs brokers
- Trade community members
- Freight forwarders
Identified Costs
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Government Accountability Office
- Federal officials imposing trade data requirements
- Department of Commerce
- CBP Centers of Excellence and Expertise
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Cassidy (for himself and Ms. Cortez Masto) introduced the …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
C-TPAT member companies, Companies using automated export systems, Exporters
CBP Centers of Excellence and Expertise, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Commerce
Positive-direction: Department of Homeland Security
Negative-direction: CBP Centers of Excellence and Expertise, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Commerce, Federal agencies with border authority, Federal officials imposing trade data requirements, Government Accountability Office
Federal technology contractors, Technology contractors
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_rhso"
- → Racehorse Health and Safety Organization
- "the_board"
- → Board of Directors of the RHSO
- "state_racing_commissions"
- → State Racing Commissions of member states
- "the_board"
- → Board of Directors of the RHSO
- "scientific_medication_control_committee"
- → Breed-specific committees (Thoroughbred, Standardbred, Quarter Horse)
- "the_board"
- → Board of Directors of the RHSO
- "the_committee"
- → Racetrack Safety Committee
- "the_rhso"
- → Racehorse Health and Safety Organization
- "the_board"
- → Board of Directors of the RHSO
Note: 'The Committee' in Title III refers specifically to the Racetrack Safety Committee, distinct from the Scientific Medication Control Committees in Title II
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Any Thoroughbred, Standardbred, or Quarter Horse from first timed workout until permanently ineligible to race or death
Any horserace involving covered horses with substantial relation to interstate commerce, including races subject to interstate off-track wagers or advance deposit wagers
Any trainer, owner, breeder, jockey, driver, racetrack, veterinarian, person licensed by a State racing commission, and their agents/employees
A legal form of parimutuel wager in which an individual deposits money into an account for on-track or off-track parimutuel wagers
Organization for official horse registration - Jockey Club (Thoroughbreds), United States Trotting Association (Standardbreds), American Quarter Horse Association (Quarter Horses)
The Racetrack Safety Committee established under section 302
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