USCIB Shares its Trade Facilitation Priorities on US/Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan

The USCIB Customs and Trade Facilitation Committee recently laid out its priorities on the trade facilitation aspects of the United States – Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan, released by President Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper on December 7, 2011. Click here for USCIB’s statement.

Work had been underway on the Action Plan since the February 4, 2011 announcement by President Obama and Prime Minister Harper on the United States-Canada joint declaration, Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness. The Action Plan lays out a shared approach to border security and economic competitiveness in which the United States and Canada work together to address the safety and security of our shared border, while expediting lawful trade and travel. The trade facilitation provisions establish steps, which upon implementation, will reduce costs and regulatory burdens, significantly enhance the flow of goods across the border, and facilitate trade and travel.

USCIB has shared its trade facilitation priorities with leaders of both the U.S. and Canadian teams leading the implementation efforts, and USCIB President and CEO Peter Robinson, met with Canadian Minister of International Trade, Ed Fast to convey USCIB’s support for the Action Plan and to emphasize interest, in particular, in Canada raising its de minimis level. USCIB applauds the effort to establish a long-term partnership between the United States and Canada, built upon a perimeter approach to security and economic competitiveness, and will continue to meet with officials on both sides of the border to engage in the implementation of the Action Plan.

U.S.-Canada Beyond the Border Action Plan

USCIB Trade Facilitation Priorities

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Staff Contact:   Megan Giblin

Senior Director, Customs and Trade Facilitation
Tel: 202.371.9235

Megan Giblin manages USCIB’s work on customs and trade facilitation and anti-illicit trade policy, covering both government affairs and policy for ATA Carnet, and provides support on trade and investment policy, handling issue management, policy development, and staff support for USCIB committees and working groups. Additionally, she had served as, and now manages, USCIB engagement as an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) representative to the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized Systems Committee and HS Review Subcommittee. Giblin was also recently re-appointed to serve as a cleared advisor to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on the Industry Trade Advisory Committee (ITAC) on Customs and Trade Facilitation Matters. Giblin has more than two decades of both public and private-sector experience, focused on customs, trade facilitation, trade policy and advocacy. She has served as business operations manager in Hewlett-Packard Company’s global trade department, working on customs, trade policy and trade facilitation matters. Giblin earned an MBA in international management and a Chinese studies certificate from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and holds a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Illinois State University. She has lived and studied extensively in Western Europe and the Far East.
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