Originally Posted by
5khours
That's fine, but there is no legitimate reason for the U.S. not to send U.S. cardholder information out to other economies for pre-clearance approval. As is clearly stated by CBP in the Federal Register, under ABTC Framework 17 one is not dependent on the other.
Stop conflating the two issues.
Have you consider that maybe a legitimate reason is other countries don't want to process pre-clearance from US citizens with reciprocal treatment?
Or as AsiaFlyer suggested, maybe it is a budgetary or privacy control reasons. Perhaps analysis indicate program can not self sustain due to costs involved to send pre-clearance and receive approval/denial etc.
Until you can point to evidence that this is not a reason, accusing CBP of not doing something without a "legitimate reason" is a bit pre-mature in my opinion.