Miscellaneous CBP Releases
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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- CBP set to disable submission of ocean export manifest via DIS on Dec. 1 (here).
- CBP is notifying the Office of Management and Budget of a number of information collection actions it plans to take through various agency forms. Comments on the information activities are due by Dec. 26. These include:
- CBP Form 6478, which concerns the accreditation of commercial testing laboratories and approval of commercial gauges (here)
- CBP Form 3173, which is an application to extend a bond for temporary importation (here)
- CBP Forms 214, 214A, 214B, 241C and 216, all of which make up the Application for Foreign-Trade Zone Admission and/or Status Designation (here)
- CBP Form 5125, which is the Application for Withdrawal of Bonded Stores for Fishing Vessel and Certificate of Use (here)
- CBP Form 300, which is the Bonded Warehouse Proprietor's Submission, which warehouse proprietors prepare annually. CBP uses information from the form to evaluate warehouse activity for the year (here)
- CBP Form 6059B, which is the Customs Declaration Form that's used as a standard report of the identity and residence of each person arriving in the U.S. (here)
- CBP Form 3299, which is the Declaration for Free Entry of Unaccompanied Articles. The information on this form is needed to support a claim for duty-free entry for these effects (here)
- CBP Form 6043, which is the Delivery Ticket and is used to document transfers of imported merchandise between parties (here)
- CBP Form 7523, which is the Entry and Manifest of Merchandise Free of Duty, Carrier’s Certificate and Release. Carriers and importers use this form as a manifest for the entry of merchandise free of duty under certain conditions, such as when a shipment is valued at $2,500 or less. CBP Form 7523 is also used by carriers to show that articles being imported are to be released to the importer or consignee and as an inward foreign manifest for vehicles or vessels, weighing less than five tons, arriving from Canada or Mexico, otherwise than by sea, with merchandise conditionally free of duty (here)
- CBP Form 349, which is the Harbor Maintenance Fee Quarterly Summary Report, and CBP Form 350, which is the Harbor Maintenance Fee Amended Quarterly Summary Report. Domestic shippers, foreign trade zone applicants and passenger vessel operators complete these forms and submit them with payment to CBP uses the information collected on CBP Forms 349 and 350 to verify that the fee collected is timely and accurately submitted (here).
- CBP administrative rulings. Collecting information during the rulings process enables CBP to make proper decisions on the issuance of binding rulings that modify or revoke prior CBP binding rulings, CBP said (here).
- CBP will continue to collect information from holders or containers that enter the U.S. duty-free per subheading 9803.00.50, which provides for the release without entry or the payment of duty of certain substantial holders or containers. The regulation, 19 CFR 10.41b, eliminates the need for an importer to file entry documents by instead requiring, among other things, the marking of the containers or holders to indicate the HTSUS numbers that provide for duty-free treatment of the containers or holders (here).
- CBP plans to collect information that's supplemental to importer information about goods subject to the actual use provisions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States and pursuant to 19 CFR 10.137 (here).
- CBP expects to continue information collection related to the transfer of cargo to a container station (here).