International Trade Data System ITDS

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International Trade Data SystemITDS

• The US Single Window Experience

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Program - Agenda

• Orientation
• Definition
• Research and Findings
• Functional Areas
• Receiving and Processing Data
• What Have We Done
• Benefits

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Orientation

• Awareness/Acknowledgment of
• Many agencies involved in trade
• The publics expectation
• Role of government in trade
• Availability and source of data
• The entities having data
• Timing of a data submission
• Shift from time of arrival to export

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What is ITDS/Single Window?

• Standard set of international, harmonized data
  and messages
• WCO Framework, WCO Data Model, WCO Framework,
  UCR, Revised Kyoto Convention, United Nations
  Trade Date Elements Directory (UNTDED)
• Data utility for collection, dissemination, use,
  and storage
• For import, export, and transit (in-bond)
• For goods, conveyances, equipment, and people
  (crew)

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Research and Findings

• 100 Agencies use International Trade Data
• 300 forms for international trade
• Reduced 10,000 data fields to 600
• 23 Federal Trade Agencies
• Ongoing Harmonization with Participating
  Government Agencies
• Compliance with WCO Data Model

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Functional Areas

• Security, Enforcement, and Targeting
• Border Operations
• Inspectors
• Licensing and Permitting
• Licenses, visas, permits, certificates (LPC)
• Statistical, Analytical
• Impact on nations economies
• Trade Promotion
• Increasing countrys access to markets

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Receiving and Processing Data

• WCO Data Model and Messages
• Accommodations for legacy messages, X12
• Exploring XML
• Receives, edits, validates, distributes, and
  stores data and results
• Operational Agencies
• Processed in the ITDS/ ACE Single Window box
• Interfaced Agencies
• Data to agency, processed by the agency
• Ownership of Box

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ITDS/Single Window PROCESSING
USDA
Operational
Results
Interfaced
FWS
Conveyance Crew Goods Equipment
FDA food
CBP ACE
CPSC
ACE/ITDS Single Window
INS immigration
arrive/depart CBP ITDS
Data in/out EDIFACT WCO X12 CATAIR CAMIR XML
Other SW
DOT transport
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What We Have Done

• Conducted Preliminary Prototypes
• North American Trade Automation Prototype (NATAP
  - CA/US/MX)
• International Trade Prototype (UK/US)
• ITDS
• Completed Data Harmonization for First Tier
  Participating Government Agencies (PGA)
• Domestic harmonization
• Mapping to the WCO Customs Data Model

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What We Have Done (Cont)

• Identified Next Tier of PGAs (23 agencies)
• PGA survey and operational/data requirements
• Domestic harmonization (August 2006)
• Mapping to the WCO Model (in progress)
• To be Completed by November 2005
• Incorporated ITDS into Release 4 of the Automated
  Commercial Environment (ACE)
• Includes PGAs - Customs, Immigration, and
  Department of Transportation
• Next Tier of PGAs to be Incorporated into
  Release 5 of ACE

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What We Have Learned

• Single Window works and can be done!
• Need High Level Support and Strong Lead Agency
• Establish Multi-Agency Governance
• ITDS Board of Directors
• Involve Trade Community and PGAs in Design,
  Development, and Decisions
• ACE Trade Support Network (TSN)
• ITDS Government Support Network (GSN)
• Expect Challenges, Use Opportunities

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Thank You

• Contact Information
• William Nolle
• P 703.629.7005
• F 703.6682561
• M 703.629.7005
• william.nolle_at_dhs.gov

• Additional Information
• www.cpb.gov
• www.wcoomd.org
• www.itds.treas.gov
• www.unece.org/cefact