CBP Amends Interim Final Rule on Importer Security Filing

(World Trade Interactive)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made several amendments to its Nov. 25, 2008, interim final rule concerning the importer security filing (10+2). CBP states that because the rule’s regulatory text was inadvertently silent regarding the time frame for transmitting an ISF for shipments intended to be transported in-bond for immediate exportation or transportation and exportation, this text is now being revised to clarify that the appropriate data elements must be submitted no later than 24 hours before the cargo is laden aboard the vessel at the foreign port.

CBP is also correcting its responses to two comments in the preamble text to align them with the regulatory text. One correction clarifies that carriers are only obligated to transmit container status messages for events that occur prior to first arrival of the goods at a U.S. port. The second indicates that the ISF must be updated if there is a change before the goods enter the limits of the first port of arrival in the U.S. and that amendments to the ISF will be accepted at any time after the goods arrive in a U.S. port.