Miscellaneous CBP Releases
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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- CBP hosts a webinar on Sept. 10 on additional ACE Reports functionalities as part of its monthly informational webinar series. Topics to be covered include refund reports, Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS) reports and advanced features for modifying reports. The webinar begins at 1 p.m. EDT and allows time at the end for Q&A (here).
- CBP's 2025 ACE Customer Satisfaction Survey is now open. The agency encourages all importers, brokers, carriers and other trade community users of ACE to take this brief survey, which is voluntary and anonymous. It closes Sept. 12 at 11:59 p.m. EDT (here).
- Quota Bulletin QB 25-502 2026 Tobacco has been published on CBP.gov. The quota period is Sept. 13, 2025, through Sept. 12, 2026. Opening date is Sept. 15 (here).
- CBP is informing the Office of Management and Budget that the agency intends to continue to collect information from CBP Forms 214, 214A, 214B and 214C, which make up the Application for Foreign-Trade Zone Admission and/or Status Designation. These forms are used by companies that bring merchandise into an FTZ to register the admission of such merchandise and to apply for the appropriate zone status (here).
- CBP told the Office of Management and Budget of plans to continue to collect information from CBP Form 7501, which is a supporting document that importers may provide to CBP alongside a commercial invoice. CBP said importers may continue to use their existing invoices (here).
- CBP plans an information collection on the use of CBP Form 3299, Declaration for Free Entry of Unaccompanied Articles, which is used when personal and household effects enter the United States but do not accompany the owner or importer on his/her arrival in the country. The information on this form is needed to support a claim for duty-free entry for these effects (here).
- CBP is informing the Office of Management and Budget that the agency is actively working to expand the list of choices and identifiers over the duration of the Global Business Identifier Test. CBP anticipates submitting non-substantive change requests to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as new identifiers are added to the test so that the information collection request record can be an accurate reflection of available options (here).
- CBP plans to continue to collect information from importers that confirms that any good they import "1. Is not on an exclusion list; 2. Complies with provisions of the law; and 3. Meets the required actual use provisions laid out in law" (here).
- CBP plans to continue to collect information from members of the trade community on abstracts of manifests when transferred containers move from a place of unloading or to a container station after transportation in-bond (here).