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- Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA)
- Forced Labor
- Basic Importing and Exporting
- ACE: The Import and Export Processing System
- eCBP Broker Instruction and Training Resources
- Priority Trade Issues
- Programs and Administration
- Rulings and Legal Decisions
- Customs Bulletin and Decisions
- CBP Trade-Related Federal Register Notices - 2026
- CBP Trade-Related Federal Register Notices
- CROSS
- Directives and Handbooks
- Federal Register Notices
- Informed Compliance Publications
- Requirements for Electronic Ruling Requests
- Guidance on Marking of Goods of Hong Kong FAQs
- What are Ruling Letters?
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act
- Border Interagency Executive Council (BIEC)
- Centers of Excellence and Expertise
- AMS Air Features
- CBP Facilitates Broker Licensing Though the Global Enrollment System
- Cybersecurity Resiliency
- Frontline Articles
- The Truth Behind Counterfeits
- Automated Clearinghouse
- 21st Century Customs Framework
- ACE Secure Data Portal In-Bond Arrival and Export Enhancement
- Decertification: CAFTA-DR, Colombia TPA, Korea FTA, Panama TPA and Peru TPA
Directives and Handbooks
CBP publishes several Directives and Handbooks, which provide guidance to the public on a variety of trade-related matters.
Additionally, CBP has a number ofInformed Compliance Publications (ICPs) in the "What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: ..." series. As of the date of this posting, the subjects listed are available for reading or downloading.
Recent Guidance Materials
- Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports
- Guidelines for Cancellation of Claims for Liquidated Damages When Petitions for Relief Are Filed Untimely
- Customs Valuation Encyclopedia 1980-2021
- A Guide for the Public: How CBP Sets Bond Amounts
Handbooks
- CBP Form 7501 Instructions
- Electronic Invoice Program(EIP)/Remote Location Filing (RLF) Handbook (External) Version
- 3500-06 Account Management Handbook
Directives
- 2310-006A Exclusion Orders
- 2310-008A Trademark and Tradename Protection
- 2310-010A Detention and Seizure Authority for Copyright and Trademark Violations
- 2310-011A Personal Use Exemption: Unauthorized Trademarks
- 3120-002A Financial Responsibility: Foreign Domiciled Carriers
- 3220-004 Manifesting of International Mail by Air Carriers
- 3230-035A Quota/Visas: Textile and Wearing Apparel Products (Document Unavailable)
- 3230-037b Quota-Class Merchandise: Processing and Reporting
- 3230-038 Quota Openings - Reporting Procedures for the Presentation of Entry Summaries for Prorated Quota (Document Unavailable)
- 3230-039A Quota and Temporary Importation Under Bond (TIB)
- 3230-040A Quota and Electronic Payments (ACH)
- 3230-044 Quota and Duty Refund Requests: TPLs/TRQs
- 3240-034A In-Bond Time Limits for Exportation
- 3240-036A In-bond Processing and Customs Form 7512, CD 3240-036A
- 3250-007B Agricultural Marketing Service Importation Inspection Requirements
- 3260-037A Policy to Combat Losses and Insure Prompt Delivery of Carted and Lightered Goods
- 3270-007 Centralized Examination Stations (CES's)
- 3280-013B Acceptance Of Temporary Admission Carnets
- 3530-002A Right to Make Entry
- 3550-017B Procedures for Requests from the Trade for Official Certification of Documents by CBP
- 3550-055 Instructions for Deriving Manufacturer/Shipper Identification Code
- 3550-058 Customs Entry Numbering
- 3550-063A Automated Clearinghouse for Payment of ABI Daily Statement (ACH)
- 3550-067 Entry Summary Acceptance and Rejection Policy
- 3550-070 Filing and Processing Claims Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- 3550-071 "Change" and "No Change" Liquidation Notations
- 3550-073A Duty Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
- 3550-079A Ultimate Consignee at Time Of Entry Release
- 3550-085 Claims under the North American Free Trade Agreement Tariff Preference Levels Program
- 3560-001A Census Interface-Processing Procedures
- 3810-009A Administrative and Judicial Review of Origin Determinations Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- 3810-010A North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Origin Determination
- 3810-011A North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Verifications
- 3820-001b Guidelines for The Sampling and Testing of Raw Sugar Importations
- 4410-008 Recovery of Lost Revenue Pursuant to 19 USC 1592(D)
- 4410-012 Bond Sufficiency Actions Against Bonded Carriers
- 4410-013 Clarification of the Revised Definition of "Fraud" Under 19 USC 1592
- 4410-014 Referral of Section 1592 Penalty Cases to the Department of Justice
- 4410-016 Issuance of Penalties for Manifest or Cargo Delivery Violations
- 4410-019 Procedures for Processing Manifest Penalty Violations for Vessels
- 5310-031B Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) Defaulted Payments
- 5610-002A Standard Guidelines for the Input of Names and Addresses Into Automated Commercial System (ACS) Files
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