Notice2023-26050
Customs Broker Permit User Fee Payment for 2024 and Announcement of eCBP Portal Payment Option
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Published
November 27, 2023
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Homeland Security DepartmentU.S. Customs and Border Protection
Abstract
This document provides notice to customs brokers that the annual user fee that is assessed for each permit held by a customs broker, whether it may be an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, is due no later than February 9, 2024. Pursuant to fee adjustments required by the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations, the customs broker permit user fee payable for calendar year 2024 will be $174.80. CBP is also announcing that customs brokers may pay the fee electronically via the electronic Customs and Border Protection (eCBP) portal.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 226 (Monday, November 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82910-82911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26050]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Customs Broker Permit User Fee Payment for 2024 and Announcement
of eCBP Portal Payment Option
AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: General notice.
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SUMMARY: This document provides notice to customs brokers that the
annual user fee that is assessed for each
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permit held by a customs broker, whether it may be an individual,
partnership, association, or corporation, is due no later than February
9, 2024. Pursuant to fee adjustments required by the Fixing America's
Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) and the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) regulations, the customs broker permit user fee
payable for calendar year 2024 will be $174.80. CBP is also announcing
that customs brokers may pay the fee electronically via the electronic
Customs and Border Protection (eCBP) portal.
DATES: Payment of the 2024 Customs Broker Permit User Fee is due no
later than February 9, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mohammad O. Qureshi, Chief, Broker
Management Branch, Office of Trade, (202) 909-3753, or
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f8959790999595999cd697d6898d8a9d8b9091b89b9a88d69c908bd69f978e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c4a9abaca5a9a9a5a0eaabeab5b1b6a1b7acad84a7a6b4eaa0acb7eaa3abb2">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Customs Broker Permit User Fee Payment for 2024
Pursuant to section 111.96 of title 19 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) (19 CFR 111.96(c)), U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) assesses an annual user fee for each customs broker
permit granted to an individual, partnership, association, or
corporation. The CBP regulations provide that this fee is payable each
calendar year for a national permit held by a customs broker and must
be paid by the due date published annually in the Federal Register. See
19 CFR 24.22(h) and (i); 19 CFR 111.96(c).
Section 24.22 of title 19 of the CFR (19 CFR 24.22) sets forth the
terms and conditions for when fees for certain services, including
specific customs user fees, are required. The specific customs user fee
amounts that appear in 19 CFR 24.22 are not the actual fees but
represent the base year amounts that are subject to adjustment each
fiscal year in accordance with the Fixing America's Surface
Transportation Act (FAST Act) (Pub. L. 114-94, December 4, 2015).
Section 32201 of the FAST Act amended section 13031 of the Consolidated
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c) by
requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust certain customs COBRA
user fees and corresponding limitations to reflect certain increases in
inflation. Paragraph (k) of section 24.22 of title 19 of the CFR (19
CFR 24.22(k)) sets forth the methodology to adjust fees for inflation
and to determine the change in inflation, including the factor by which
the fees and limitations will be adjusted, if necessary.
Customs brokers are subject to an annual customs broker permit user
fee calculated using the base year amount in appendix A to 19 CFR part
24, as adjusted by the terms in 19 CFR 24.22(k). See 19 U.S.C.
58c(a)(7) and 19 CFR 24.22(h). In accordance with 19 CFR 24.22, CBP
determines annually whether an adjustment to the fees and limitations
is necessary and publishes a Federal Register notice specifying the
amount of the fees and limitations for each fiscal year. On July 28,
2023, CBP published a Federal Register notice, entitled COBRA Fees to
be Adjusted for Inflation in Fiscal Year 2024 (CBP Dec. 23-08), which
announced, among other fee adjustments, that the annual customs broker
permit user fee will increase to $174.80 for calendar year 2024. See 88
FR 48900.
Thus, as required by 19 CFR 24.22, CBP provided notice in the
Federal Register of the annual fee amount at least 60 days prior to the
date that the payment is due for each customs broker national permit.
This document notifies customs brokers that, for calendar year 2024,
the due date for payment of the annual customs broker permit user fee
is February 9, 2024. If a customs broker fails to pay the annual
customs broker permit user fee by February 9, 2024, the national permit
is revoked by operation of law. See 19 CFR 111.45(b) and 111.96(c).
Announcement of eCBP Portal Payment Option
On October 18, 2022, CBP published a final rule titled
``Modernization of the Customs Broker Regulations'' in the Federal
Register (87 FR 63267), which announced the deployment of the
electronic Customs and Border Protection (eCBP) portal, an online
system for processing electronic payments of licensed customs broker
fees and submissions, and stated that CBP would announce additional
eCBP functionalities, including an enhancement allowing the payment of
annual permit user fees, in the Federal Register. Accordingly, in this
document, CBP is announcing the deployment of new eCBP functionality
allowing the payment of the annual customs broker permit user fee. CBP
anticipates that the eCBP portal will be open for the collection of
annual customs broker permit user fee payments starting on November 29,
2023.
With this new functionality, customs brokers may either submit the
fee through the eCBP portal or submit the fee at the processing Center,
as defined in 19 CFR 111.1, in accordance with the remittance
procedures in 19 CFR 24.22(i). The eCBP portal streamlines the payment
process, allows for easy collection of fees, and offers customs brokers
the flexibility and convenience to pay licensed customs broker fees
easily and effectively. Thus, CBP encourages customs brokers to pay the
annual customs broker permit user fee electronically via the eCBP
portal. Customs brokers who wish to use the eCBP portal, located on
CBP's website or at <a href="https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/brokers/#/home">https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/brokers/#/home</a>, must create a
<a href="http://Login.gov">Login.gov</a> account as a first-time user. Instructions and training
resources, such as user and quick reference guides, for customs brokers
on how to create a <a href="http://Login.gov">Login.gov</a> account and how to use the eCBP portal can
be found on CBP's website.
John P. Leonard,
Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade.
[FR Doc. 2023-26050 Filed 11-24-23; 8:45 am]
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