April 2019 — Question 6
All records pertaining to bonded merchandise must be retained by the proprietor of the bonded facility for __________ after the date of the final withdrawal?
- A1 year
- B2 years
- C3 years
- D4 years
- E5 years✓ CBP's answer
Why this answer
The cited provision sits in 19 CFR 19.4(b), which sets the recordkeeping duties of bonded warehouse proprietors. Under it, the proprietor must retain all records pertaining to bonded merchandise for five years after the date of the final withdrawal under the relevant entry. The five-year horizon matches the general customs recordkeeping period, which is why CBP keyed E. The shorter periods offered as distractors borrow from other contexts, such as the two-year retention that applies to certain informal-entry records, but none of them governs a bonded facility's merchandise records, and the clock runs from final withdrawal rather than from the date of entry. Watch for: Applying a shorter retention period borrowed from other recordkeeping rules to bonded-warehouse records.
Original CBLE Simulator explanation — the question and key above are CBP's; this analysis is ours. Verify against the current edition before relying on it in practice.
CBP's cited authority
Answer and citations as published in CBP's official answer key for the April 2019 examination.
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