Foreign Trade Zones & Warehouses
October 2021 — Question 6
A ________________ or unique identifier will be used to identify and trace merchandise within a Foreign Trade Zone.
- ACBP Form 214
- BCustoms in-bond seal
- CZone lot number✓ CBP's answer
- DLot file
- ECBP Form 3461
Why this answer
The cited FTZ accountability regulation requires the operator's inventory control and recordkeeping system to account for all merchandise in the zone, and under the edition tested it provides that a zone lot number or unique identifier be used to identify and trace that merchandise. CBP Form 214 is the tempting distractor because it is the FTZ document candidates know best, but it only admits merchandise into the zone and is not the in-zone tracking device the accountability rules prescribe. A lot file is the record maintained for a zone lot rather than the identifier itself, and Form 3461 is a release document. Watch for: Picking the Form 214 admission document instead of the in-zone tracking identifier.
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 October 2021 examination.
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