Trans-Atlantik-Trade

US CUSTOMS IMPORTER SECURITY FILING – “10+2”

    Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

    On January 26 2009  the “Importer Security Filing (ISF) 10+2”  of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)  came into effect with a granted period of 12 month under Informed Compliance.
    This “Grace Period” ends now on January 26th, from then on the following requested elements needs to be submitted to by the importer or his appointed agent 24 hours prior vessel arrival at port of loading, missing or faulty Data will result into a do-not load-order by CBP.

    Importers, or their agents, are required to submit the additional 10 elements covering:

Seller

Buyer

Importer of Record number

Consignee Number

Manufacturer (or Supplier)

Ship-to-party

Country of origin

Commodity HTSUS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States)

Container Stuffing Location, and

Consolidator

    It is required that the Submission of the required information is processed by EDI-Standard.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 as soon as possible, but no later than 24 hours prior to vessels’ arrival at the FIRST US Port of Call.

    This Service is also offered by OOCL Logistics, for further information please contact Mrs. Goelin Kroencke – Phone Number (49-421)1605877

    Carriers are required to submit two elements:

Container Status Messages (CSMs)

Stowage Plans

    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:

Booking Party

Foreign port of unlading

Place of delivery

Ship-to-Party

Commodity HTSUS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States)

    This needs to be submitted at the “lowest” level of BL, either at House BL for consolidated shipments, or straight BL level for simple consigned shipments.

    Should you have any questions or require additional information to support your submission of these additional requirements for US Customs and Border Protection, please do not hesitate to contact your nearest OOCL CSU office.

    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/

     Your OOCL Team