US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) filed the Interim Final rule for the Importer Security Filing (ISF) “10+2” with an effective date of Jan 26 2009, and a gradual implementation process of 12 months under Informed Compliance.
The period of Informed Compliance will now end on January 26, 2010, after which Importers and Carriers (defined as parties causing goods to arrive in the US) are expected to have full compliance with this rule.
We would like to advise our customers that if you are not submitting information to CBP conforming to the ISF10 requirements, we would suggest that this be arranged without further delay. To assist your compliance, we would also like to advise that we do provide a number of optional services to facilitate submission of ISF10 on behalf of the Importer, or through a self service capability.
From OOCL’s perspective, with Carrier responsibility for ISF2 and ISF5, we are already fully compliant with the Regulation and do not foresee any issues after January 26.
Should you have any questions or require additional information as to how OOCL can support your filing requirements, please do not hesitate to contact your nearest OOCL CSU office.
Background information:
The ISF Rule is often referred to as the “10+2” rule, due to the number of data elements CBP requires the Importers and Carriers to file.
Importers or their agents are required to submit the following 10 elements, at the lowest AMS filed BL level, covering:
1. Seller
2. Buyer
3. Importer of Record number
4. Consignee Number
5. Manufacturer (or Supplier)
6. Ship-to-party
7. Country of origin
8. Commodity HTSUS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States)
9. Container Stuffing Location, and
10. Consolidator (stuffer)
There is flexibility in the current Rule to submit 8 of the 10 elements 24 hours prior to loading and to supplement the Container Stuffing location and consolidator information no later than 24 hours prior to vessels arrival at the first US Port of Discharge.
Carriers are required to submit 2 elements, the Container Status messages (SCMs) – accounting for all container activities through to arrival at the US Port of Discharge, and Stowage Plans, detailing all containers loaded on board the respective vessel.
Additionally, for FROB (Freight Remaining on Board – cargo transiting US ports for discharge at foreign locations), IE (Import to US and immediate Export), and TE (Cargo importing to US, transiting US for ultimate foreign export), there are an additional 5 elements that need to be submitted, 24 hours prior to cargo load at the foreign port of loading, as follows:
1. Booking Party
2. Foreign port of unlading
3. Place of delivery
4. Ship to Party
5. Commodity HTSUS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States)
This needs to be submitted at the “lowest BL level”, either at House BL for NVOCC shipments or straight BL level for simple consigned shipments.
For complete details of this new rule, please refer to the following link in the US CBP web site: http://cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/cargo_security/carriers/security_filing/
