Abbreviations
ISF
What Importer Security Filing?
DAP
What is Delivered At Place?
Third party used for booking shipments overseas?
What is agent (partner)?
The system used for classifying goods.
What is HTS (harmonized traffic code)?
CBP
What is Customs and Border Protection?
FOB
What is Free On Board?
Four-digit alpha-numeric identifier assigned by Customs that tracks exact location of imported cargo.
What is FIRMS code?
A designated location—such as an airport, seaport, or land border crossing—where U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is authorized to enforce import/export laws, accept merchandise, collect duties, and clear goods. It is the legal and official point where foreign goods can enter the United States, and a customs broker's work is focused on navigating the clearance process at these locations.
What is port of entry?
RLF
DAT
What is Delivered At Terminal?
The foreign entity that manufactures, produces or grows a product, which determines its country of origin.
What is manufacturer?
The specific port where cargo is physically placed onto a vessel to begin its international sea journey.
What is port of loading?
FDA
What is Food and Drug Administration?
DDP
What is Delivered Duty Paid?
A company that provides all the services of an ocean carrier but does not own or operate the vessels that transport the cargo.
What is an NVOCC?
The total number of individual, lowest-level external packaging units being shipped.
What is manifested piece count?
ACE
What is Automated Commercial Environment?
CFR
What is Cost and Freight?
For US Customs' purposes - The individual or entity who ultimately receives the exported goods and is the designated end user.
What is the ultimate consignee?
A percentage of the total value of an imported good, used to calculate the tax owed to the government
What is duty rate?