The following is available in its entirety on the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) website.
1. This notice is for the attention of carriers, importers, freight forwarders and sufferance warehouse operators.
2. As part of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Cargo Control and Sufferance Warehouse Modernization (CCSWM) initiative, the CBSA has amended its delivery requirements for consolidated, unreleased cargo that has been reported and authorized to move inland to a sufferance warehouse. This policy change applies only to consolidated cargo and modifies the existing restriction that prohibits direct delivery to a Type CW sufferance warehouse.
3. From a CBSA standpoint, a consolidation exists when a number of shipments are grouped together by a consolidator or freight forwarder and shipped to an agent or a freight forwarder as one shipment and reported to the CBSA on one cargo control document (CCD) and under one cargo control number (CCN). Single shipments, also known as back to back shipments, are shipments that involve both a freight forwarder and a primary carrier, but consist of only one shipment. Single shipments are considered consolidated for the purposes of ACI transmissions. An electronic cargo transmission is required from the primary carrier indicating “yes†for consolidation. An electronic house bill and house bill close message is required from the freight forwarder. Single shipments will be processed in the same manner as consolidations that included multiple house bills.
4. Effective immediately, consolidated shipments consigned to a freight forwarder and reported by the carrier at the First Point of Arrival (FPOA), may be authorized to move directly (without being remanifested) to the freight forwarder sufferance warehouse sub-location warehouse code that is indicated on the cargo information provided by the primary carrier, under the following conditions:
a) The reporting carrier pre-arrival cargo information will include: the freight forwarder as consignee and the supplementary indicator or consolidation indicator as “Yâ€; and
b) The pre-arrival secondary house bill information is on file and in a reported status at the FPOA; and
c) The reporting carrier is bonded (where applicable), and maintains liability for the goods reported until a transfer of liability has taken place at the destination warehouse; and
d) The receiving sufferance warehouse is a CW type, as per Memorandum D4-1-4, Customs Sufferance Warehouses, it is authorized to receive consolidated freight and deconsolidate freight; and
e) sufferance warehouse operator receiving the cargo transmits an electronic Warehouse Arrival Certification Message (WACM) as defined in Section 14 of the Customs Sufferance Warehouses Regulations.
f) The CW type sufferance warehouse is able to receive the electronic Deconsolidation Notice from the CBSA.
5. Exception: Where a hold for examination is placed on the shipment, the shipment will be held at the FPOA. Movement beyond FPOA will not be allowed unless authorized by the CBSA.
6. In the air and marine modes, cargo logistically must go through the primary warehouse, but the cargo does not have to be destined to the primary warehouse.