Foreign Trade Zones & Warehouses
October 2021 — Question 8
With regards to a Foreign Trade Zone, the term ______________ refers to a person or firm using a zone or subzone for storage, handling, or processing of merchandise.
- AUnique identifier
- BGuard service
- CUser✓ CBP's answer
- DBonded carrier
- EOperator Category III – Marking
Why this answer
The definitions section of the FTZ regulations, which CBP cites, supplies the vocabulary for all of Part 146, and under the edition tested it defines a zone user as a person or firm using a zone or subzone for storage, handling, or processing of merchandise, the precise language of the stem. Operator is the tempting distractor because operators also work within zones, but the operator is the party that runs the zone under agreement with the grantee and bears responsibility for admissions, recordkeeping, and security; a party that merely uses zone space for its own merchandise is a user. Watch for: Choosing operator, the party running the zone, instead of the firm merely using it.
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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