CBP to Adopt Forwarder Filing of Pre-Departure Export Manifest Data, Trade Group Says
Freight forwarders will be able to submit air export manifests as part of upcoming pre-departure manifest filing, CBP has said, according to an update from the Airforwarders Association. Though up until now airlines have filed CBP Form 7509, CBP will…
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adopt “some version” of the “progressive filing model,” whereby the forwarder electronically submits “all or most of this data electronically before departure,” the AfA said. The current pilot program has a mode for forwarders to report the data, but the “issue with the pilot” is that there is currently “little participation by forwarders,” the trade group said. Aspects of the progressive filing model will likely be incorporated into “new export rules coming out,” the AfA said. CBP did not comment.