CBP Issues Guidance on Commercial Food Courier Shipments in the Passenger Environment
CBP has issued guidance addressing the treatment of commercial food courier shipments that arrive in the passenger environment, clarifying applicable procedures for this shipment type that sits at the intersection of commercial entry and passenger processing.
We read this guidance as an enforcement-posture signal — CBP is drawing a clearer line between personal-use food items and commercial food shipments processed through the passenger environment, and our position is that misclassification of these shipments carries meaningful compliance risk.
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