This article in DC Velocity describes a move by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency where it will accept export security and manifest messaging data from a standard adopted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global airline trade group, and widely used by carriers, called the "Cargo-XML" format.
Descartes' Fany Flores-Pastor called the move a "huge step" for the CBP. The agency, she said, is "catching up with other countries that have already been using Cargo-XML" to submit key manifest data in advance of cargo's arrival at origin airports.
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