Remote Location Filing
(RLF) Delivers
Extended New Reach to
Trade Community
IMPORTERS, BROKERS
SAVE TIME AND MONEY BY TAKING DISTANCE OUT OF THEIR BUSINESS EQUATION!
You can take advantage of
today's technology to "bring Customs to you," not vice versa, to move
your data, not your employees, to transact your Customs business. With Remote
Location Filing (RLF), your distance from the port of arrival or the designated
port (DES) where the cargo will be examined is no longer a problem.
If NASA's Mars rover can
send data hundreds of millions of miles back to earth, your computer should be
able to handle your mission-critical transmissions to distant Customs ports.
RLF was created as one of
the "Customs Mod Act" provisions included in the North
American Free Trade Agreement, enacted in December 1993. RLF is designed to
ensure that your vital flow of trade data--what your business depends on--is no
longer arbitrarily contained by Customs administrative boundaries.
It is no longer necessary,
under RLF, to actually be in the cargo's port of arrival to handle its Customs
clearance. If you have the data, let it travel the
country--electronically--instead of you or your employees. Doesn't this make
good business sense?
RLF works this way.
Approved importers and brokers submit to RLF-trained Customs ports
completely electronic trade data--including invoice information WHEN
REQUESTED--for processing most formal (entry type 01) and informal (entry type
11) importations. RLF even allows you to pick a different RLF-trained port
for the cargo's Designated Exam Site, or DES.
Imagine how this could
benefit your business. If you meet the RLF requirements, you can launch
your Customs transactions into the fast lane, and let RLF's smarter Customs
connections improve your stock in trade!
