CBP Instates Broker Management Plan for Area Port of Memphis

CBP has issued a press release announcing that to better enable CBP brokerage oversight and compliance in the Memphis area of responsibility, a plan will be implemented to sustain the entire broker licensing and permitting process in the area port of Memphis.

This will provide better and timely external customer services to the Mid-South and New Orleans importing communities by reducing administrative redundancy. CBP permitting and licensing processes for individual licensed brokers residing in the states of Arkansas and Tennessee will be handled by the area port of Memphis. Partnerships, associations and corporations permitted in the states of Arkansas and Tennessee will also be handled by the area port of Memphis. The change will have no impact on the statutory regulations nor will it require a change in current district boundaries. Full implementation will begin on February 1, 2011.