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Fewer than a third of 10+2 filings meet US Customs deadlines
2009/4/13
US CUSTOMS says fewer than a-third of 10+2 documents submitted electronically by shippers meet the filing deadlines set at 24 hours before cargo is loaded at foreign ports.
Customs is now receiving about 9,500 to 10,000 filings a day, up from 1,200 daily during the first week the programme started on January 26, reports American Shipper.
Officials are not enforcing the rule in the first year to enable the development of software and systems, according to customs Importer Security Filing director Richard DiNucci.
The highest number of ISF rejections (10,000) result from duplicate filings, caused by importers filing without realising a supply chain partner at origin had already done so, or from filing an update using a different system than the original.
Most other errors are data entry mistakes, such as using an ISF number for a transaction that had already been used by a different party, or a mistyped commodity tariff number or importer of record number, according to ISF director Richard DiNucci.
Shippers also encounter trouble getting ocean carriers to accelerate issuing bills of lading numbers, required as a cross-check on the ISF form.
ISF requires 10 types of data identifying where a container originated, its contents, the consolidator and buyer, plus two data fields provided by the ocean carrier (vessel stow plan and container status messages normally issued to customers).
Customs has received more than 350,000 ISFs from April 1 from 31,443 importers, customs brokers and freight forwarders.
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2009/4/13