Notice2025-21732
Customs Broker Permit User Fee Payment for 2026
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Published
December 2, 2025
Issuing agencies
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 an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, is due no later than January 30, 2026. 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 2026 will be $185.38.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 229 (Tuesday, December 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55319-55320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-21732]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Customs Broker Permit User Fee Payment for 2026
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 permit held by a customs
broker, whether an individual, partnership, association, or
corporation, is due no later than January 30, 2026. 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 2026 will be $185.38.
DATES: Payment of the 2026 Customs Broker Permit User Fee is due no
later than January 30, 2026.
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#234e4c4b424e4e42470d4c0d52565146504b4a634041530d474b500d444c55"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ec8183848d81818d88c283c29d999e899f8485ac8f8e9cc288849fc28b839a">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
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 23,
2025, CBP published a Federal Register notice, entitled Customs User
Fees To Be Adjusted for Inflation in Fiscal Year 2026 (CBP Decision 25-
10), which announced, among other fee adjustments, that the annual
customs broker permit user fee will increase to $185.38 for calendar
year 2026. See 90 FR 34665.
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 2026,
the due date for payment of the annual customs broker permit user fee
is January 30, 2026. If a customs broker fails to pay the annual
customs broker permit user fee by January 30, 2026, the national permit
is revoked by operation of law. See 19 CFR 111.45(b) and 111.96(c).
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
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procedures in 19 CFR 24.22(i). CBP encourages customs brokers to pay
the annual customs broker permit user fee electronically via the eCBP
portal, located at <a href="https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/brokers/#/home">https://e.cbp.dhs.gov/brokers/#/home</a>. Customs
brokers who are first time users of the eCBP portal must create a
<a href="http://Login.gov">Login.gov</a> account. 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 at <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/trade/eCBP">https://www.cbp.gov/trade/eCBP</a>.
Susan S. Thomas,
Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade.
[FR Doc. 2025-21732 Filed 12-1-25; 8:45 am]
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