April 2022 — Question 7

Why this answer

The cited section of the warehouse regulations creates and defines the eleven classes of customs bonded warehouses. Under the edition tested, class 9 is the bonded warehouse known as a duty-free store, used for selling conditionally duty-free merchandise for use outside the customs territory, so D is keyed. The other options map to different functions: class 1 covers premises used by the government, class 3 public bonded warehouses for general storage, class 6 manufacturing warehouses, and class 11 warehouses for general order merchandise. None of those involves retail duty-free sales, and the question rewards straight memorization of the class list. Watch for: Mixing up class 9 duty-free stores with class 11 general order warehouses.

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.