CBP Extends Deadline for Use of Form 1302A in DIS
CBP extended the deadline after which the Document Imaging System will no longer accept “Form 1302A Cargo Declaration - Outward with Commercial Forms,” the agency said in a Sept. 20 CSMS message. The date was extended by six months, from Oct. 1, 2022, to April 1, 2023.
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CBP said it received extension requests from the vessel operator, non-vessel operator and software vendor communities, who wanted more time to “adequately program and test with their assigned CBP Client Representatives” in preparation for the agency’s upcoming mandate of Electronic Export Manifest (see 2207290035 and 2209150014). CBP had offered DIS for electronic submissions of Form 1302A as an interim step prior to the development of a fully electronic export ocean manifest.
CBP said filers using DIS to file Form 1302A should transition to either paper submissions or participate in the EEM pilot. "Trade participants currently programming and testing should work towards transitioning over to submitting 100% EEM prior to the new” April deadline," the agency said. “Submitting the CBP Form 1302A will no longer be required in paper or to DIS once the carrier(s) are submitting 100% EEM."