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April 2026, question 47

Entry / Entry Summary · Customs bonds

If an Activity Code 1- Basic Importation and Entry continuous bond will be transmitted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pursuant to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic bond system (eBond) test, using a CBP-approved Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), who must transmit it?

  1. Port Director
  2. Importer
  3. Filer
  4. Surety or Surety Agent
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CBP's answer: D. D: Surety or Surety Agent

Under the eBond test, single transaction or continuous eBonds and riders are transmitted to ACE by EDI or email to the Office of Finance, and the BRPD says the transmission of eBonds to CBP must be made by a surety or surety agent. Activity Code 1 (Basic Importation and Entry) is listed as eligible, so D is right. The port director, importer and filer do not transmit these bonds under the test. Note: the BRPD paragraph that states this (section 3.7) is not reachable by the site's citation lookup, so the quote below is the nearest supporting text: the surety issues the bond.

The surety issues the bond and the beneficiary of the bond in most cases, is CBP ACE BRPD Section 3.4

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CBP's key cites: ACE BRPD Chapter 3

Question and key from CBP's April 2026 exam and answer key. The walk-through is ours; quotes are from the pinned editions in the reference viewer (HTSUS 2026 Basic, 19 CFR 2025 edition).