Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Understanding Your ISF Report Card

Importer Security Filing Progress Reports

U.S. Customs has released the second set of importer security filing report cards. This batch contains data from 5/19/09 through 8/06/09 and was generated by CBP according to their criteria. Please review your report carefully.

You will notice on this report that CBP has added a “Message Action” column that either shows “Add” or “Replace”. Add is the first ISF transmission which is measured as “accepted” or “rejected” –
Replace is any subsequent transmission again which is “accepted” or “rejected”. When reviewing your report you should also pay special attention to the Timeliness Performance. It is our opinion that if your company has a less than 50% timeliness rating, that some investigation is necessary and you should be working closely with supply chain stakeholders to improve processes and timely reporting of information.

The next TRG Direct User’s Group will continue to explore and discuss best practices among TRG Direct clients and the most recent series of reports. We encourage you to join us for these lively and informative sessions. The next User’s Group meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 9th at 11:00 am central time. Advanced registration is required and can be accomplished by visiting the following link:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/288970082

If you have general questions concerning your report or the data contained in it please contact us at customerservice@trgdirect.com. If you have specific questions related to the report please contact CBP directly at progress_report@cbp.dhs.gov.


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