As per the provisions of 19 CFR § 111.30, each US licensed customs broker must file a triennial status report with CBP, on February 1 of each third year after 1985. The next triennial status report is due on February 1, 2024. This report must be filed through a CBP-authorized EDI system along with payment of the triennial status report fee. If a CBP-authorized EDI system is not available, the triennial status report must be filed with the processing Center. A report received during the month of February will be considered filed timely. No form or particular format is required.

Each individual broker must state in the triennial status report whether he or she is actively engaged in transacting business as a broker. If he or she is so actively engaged, the broker must also:

(i) State the name under which, and the address at which, the broker’s business is conducted if he or she is a sole proprietor, and an email address;

(ii) State the name and address of his or her employer if he or she is employed by another broker, unless his or her employer is a partnership, association or corporation broker for which he or she is a qualifying member or officer; and

(iii) State whether or not he or she still meets the applicable requirements and has not engaged in any conduct that could constitute grounds for suspension or revocation.

An individual broker not actively engaged in transacting business as a broker must provide CBP with the broker’s current mailing address and email address, and state whether or not he or she still meets the applicable requirements and has not engaged in any conduct that could constitute grounds for suspension or revocation.

Each partnership, association, or corporation broker must state in the triennial status report the name under which its business as a broker is being transacted, the broker’s office of record, the name, address and email address of each licensed member of the partnership or licensed officer of the association or corporation, including the license qualifier and the name of the licensed employee who is the national permit qualifier, and whether the partnership, association, or corporation is actively engaged in transacting business as a broker. The report must be signed by a licensed member or officer.

A partnership, association, or corporation broker must state whether or not the partnership, association, or corporation broker still meets the applicable requirements and has not engaged in any conduct that could constitute grounds for suspension or revocation.

If a broker fails to file the triennial status report by March 1 of the reporting year, the broker’s license is suspended by operation of law on that date. By March 31 of the reporting year, CBP will transmit written notice of the suspension to the broker by certified mail, return receipt requested, at the address reflected in CBP records. If the broker files the required report and pays the required fee within 60 calendar days of the date of the notice of suspension, the license will be reinstated. If the broker does not file the required report and pay the required fee within that 60-day period, the broker’s license is revoked by operation of law without prejudice to the filing of an application for a new license. Notice of the revocation will be published in the Federal Register.