The US CBP (customs and border protection) has announced 9th July, 2013 for beginning ISF’s (Importer Security Filing) liquidated damages phase. The ISF enforcement phases have been designed for helping CBP to make much informed targeting decisions with respect to high-risk United States-bound cargos. Beginning on July 9th, 2013, liquidated damages of nearly five thousand dollars for every violation will get issued for incomplete, untimely, or inaccurate filings. CBP can also withhold transfer or release of the cargo for which ISF hasn’t been filed. The noncompliant cargos may be subjected to further inspection as well. Now here, all importers require assistance of Cap Intl the cargo import brokers Houston as it is the only reliable, trustworthy, and cost-effective place that can solve all the cargo related issues of yours. According to ISF, all carriers and importers have to electronically submit the 10 + 2 data for their cargo at least 24 hours prior to ocean freight getting loaded onto the vessel bound for United States. This has been designed for increasing the shipment information amount that is available with CBP so as to better identify the potential terrorists threats.
Cap Intl the Houston customs brokers are available at your service to submit the ISF data. Those importers who are importing goods through ocean freight, United States Custom service has made it mandatory for submitting importer security filing. It’s a rule in which every importer who has freight being imported via ocean is required to provide extra details prior to their shipment departure to the US. The importers who are not going to follow this rule will have to pay huge fines, delay of cargo, and more inspection. With the help of this ISF information, officials as well as their corresponding offices can spot shipments with high-risks more easily thereby preventing smuggling as well as ensuring security and safety of imported shipments.
Customs broker Houston is highly involved in ISF process. According to these rules, a licensed custom broker has to electronically file details along with required information on the merchandise imported 24 hours prior to the shipment departing from the last foreign port. This rule also says that all ISF filings have to be submitted electronically through ABI (automated broker interface) or AMS (automated manifest system). No form of paper will be accepted. Being a licensed broker, Cap Intl the Houston Customs Broker knows that 10 important piece of information has to be provided 24 hours prior to the vessel departing for the USA. This information includes buyer, seller, consignee number, importer of the record number, ship to party, manufacturer, consolidator, container stuffing location, country to origin, HTSUS number (commodity harmonized tariff schedule of US).
With these elements, importers provide a wide range of acceptable information depending on facts that are available with them at the right time. But this new information requires to be entered as soon as possible. For this update filing, US Customs offers 24 hours maximum. This information includes consolidator and container stuffing location. Some other data that is required includes vessel operator, vessel name, voyage number, container operator, equipment type and size, equipment number, Hazmat code, port of discharge, stow position, port of landing, and port of discharge. The company will offer you all kind of help that you require for filing ISF.
