CBP Issues Update Informed Compliance Publication on Customs Brokers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Office of Regulations and Rulings has recently issued an updated version of the informed compliance publication entitled What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Customs Brokers. In addition to providing substantive information on the resposibilities of customshouse brokers, the publication explains the historical background that led to the current licensing and permit regime, and discusses, in detail, the recently revised procedures to become a customs broker, the duties and responsibilities of a customs broker and the procedures for disciplining a customs broker.
The publication (in PDF format) can be viewed at the following link:
www.customs.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/legal/informed_compliance_pubs/entry/icp048.ctt/icp048.pdf