CBP Extension of Import Recordkeeping Requirements
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Extends, without changes, CBP’s existing approval to collect and review records that businesses must keep for imported goods. These records help CBP check whether import entries are accurate, including tariff treatment, admissibility, classification, value, and duty rates. Importers and other trade businesses do not face a new rule, but their existing recordkeeping duties continue. Businesses can comment on the paperwork burden and ways to reduce it by June 1, 2026, through reginfo.gov.
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Key Changes
- Extends the existing CBP recordkeeping information collection with no changes
- Opens a 30-day public comment period on the paperwork burden and usefulness of the records
- Keeps current import recordkeeping expectations for affected trade businesses
Obligations
What this law requires
Maintain records that pertain to the entry of imported merchandise, as required by CBP’s Mod Act recordkeeping rules in 19 CFR part 163.
Maintain financial records needed to substantiate the correctness of information contained in customs entry documentation.
Produce required entry and supporting records to CBP when CBP requests them, so CBP can verify tariff status, admissibility, classification or nomenclature, value, and applicable duty rate for imported goods.