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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.\n2. 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.\n3. In building and maintaining its single window system, each Party shall:\n(a) incorporate, as appropriate, the World Customs Organization Data Model for data elements;\n(b) endeavor to implement standards and data elements for import, export, and transit that are the same as the other Party\u2019s single window system;\n(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\n(d) endeavor to implement a reference number to uniquely identify data related to individual transactions.\n4. In implementing paragraph 3, the Parties shall:\n(a) share with each other their respective experiences in developing and maintaining their single window system; and\n(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.\n5. 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.\n6. 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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.\n4.2 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.\n4.3 Members shall notify the Committee of the details of operation of the single window.\n4.4 Members shall, to the extent possible and practicable, use information technology to support the single window.", "samples": [{"hash": "eWsJBpzBYaS", "uri": "/contracts/eWsJBpzBYaS#single-window", "label": "Trade Facilitation Agreement", "score": 30.7405700684, "published": true}, {"hash": "dLFsauUdcjT", "uri": "/contracts/dLFsauUdcjT#single-window", "label": "Trade Facilitation Agreement", "score": 23.4153747559, "published": true}, {"hash": "9reLNP1zR4", "uri": "/contracts/9reLNP1zR4#single-window", "label": "Agreement on Trade Facilitation", "score": 23.3568115234, "published": true}], "snippet_links": [{"key": "to-establish", "type": "clause", "offset": [28, 40]}, {"key": "to-submit", "type": "definition", "offset": [87, 96]}, {"key": "requirements-for", "type": "clause", "offset": [123, 139]}, {"key": "transit-of-goods", "type": "clause", "offset": [169, 185]}, {"key": "single-entry-point", "type": "definition", "offset": [196, 214]}, {"key": "participating-authorities", "type": "clause", "offset": [222, 247]}, {"key": "the-examination", "type": "clause", "offset": [267, 282]}, {"key": "the-applicants", "type": "clause", "offset": [395, 409]}, {"key": "in-a-timely-manner", "type": "definition", "offset": [436, 454]}, {"key": "requested-by", "type": "clause", "offset": [629, 641]}, {"key": "limited-exceptions", "type": "clause", "offset": [721, 739]}, {"key": "made-public", "type": "definition", "offset": [750, 761]}, {"key": "the-committee", "type": "clause", "offset": [788, 801]}, {"key": "operation-of-the", "type": "clause", "offset": [820, 836]}, {"key": "to-the-extent", "type": "clause", "offset": [871, 884]}, {"key": "information-technology", "type": "clause", "offset": [915, 937]}], "size": 3, "hash": "a661d90a9529c44744ac76ced53ccd15", "id": 5}, {"snippet": "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.\n2. 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:\n(a) perform an assessment of risk; and\n(b) expedite the release of low-risk goods.\n3. 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:\n(a) perform an assessment of risk; and\n(b) expedite the release of low-risk goods.\n4. 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.\n5. 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.\n6. 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.\n7. 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On February 19, 2014, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 signed an executive order directing that U.S. agencies with a role in international trade must complete development of an electronic \u201csingle window\u201d through which \u201cbusinesses will transmit data required by participating agencies for the importation and exportation of cargo.\u201d The order further required that all participating agencies have \u201ccapabilities, agreements, and other requirements in place\u201d by December 31, 2016.37 The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-125, \u00a7106) provided additional funding to \u201ccomplete the development and implementation\u201d 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: \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587://\u2587\u2587\u2587.\u2587\u2587\u2587.\u2587\u2587\u2587/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, \u201cACEopedia December 2016), \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587://\u2587\u2587\u2587.\u2587\u2587\u2587.\u2587\u2587\u2587/document/report/aceopedia. 36 World Economic Forum and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, The Global Enabling Trade Report, 2016, p. 309, \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587://\u2587\u2587\u2587.\u2587\u2587/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 documents. CBP had planned to deploy post-release capabilities including notices of liquidation of goods, statements, duty drawback, and protests in ACE by January 14, 2017, but postponed the deployment with no new target date.39 On December 12, 2016, CBP published a final rule stating that, by January 14, 2017, CBP official notices of liquidation, suspension of liquidation, and extension of liquidation be posted on the CBP website rather than mailed or posted in customhouses or stations.40 CBP stated that electronic notification of liquidation activities would be posted as planned. Agencies\u2019 integration into the system is varied, as CBP must conduct pilot testing of each agency\u2019s capabilities to receive data and documents through the ITDS.41 In December 2016, then- CBP Commissioner \u2587\u2587\u2587 \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 announced that as part of the single window effort, CBP\u2019s partner agencies have automated more than 300 paper forms.42 A key issue with the TFA is effective implementation by all WTO members. Trade agreement implementation is not always smooth. For example, there have been ongoing issues with South Korea\u2019s implementation of \u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587\u2587 provisions on express delivery shipment inspection and delays.43 The World Customs Organization (WCO) is working with the WTO on implementation of the TFA. It has released implementation guidance for each Section I article of the agreement.44 The guidance not only explains the provisions but provides tools, examples of member implementation that can be considered best practices, and quantitative indicators a country could use. For example, the WCO highlights U.S. Customs Mutual Assistance Agreements (CMAAs) as a member implementation of Article 12. Different sets of indicators by various international organizations exist to measure levels of trade facilitation and could be used to monitor TFA implementation and impact (see Text Box). 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