October 2024 — Question 4
An individual's customs broker license is suspended by operation of law for failure to file a triennial status report and pay the fee, and the individual has received the notice of suspension as prescribed by regulation. When will the license be revoked by operation of law if the individual fails to file the report and pay the fee?
- AOn the 30th business day after the date of the suspension notice
- BOn March 31 of the reporting year.
- COn the 61st calendar day after the date of the suspension notice.✓ CBP's answer
- DOn the date that the Federal Register Notice of revocation is published.
Why this answer
Under the cited status-report provision, a license unsupported by a timely triennial report is suspended by operation of law, CBP issues notice of the suspension, and if the broker fails to file the report and pay the fee within sixty calendar days of the date of that notice, the license is revoked by operation of law. The sixtieth day closes the cure window, so revocation lands on the sixty-first calendar day after the notice date, as option C states. The March date matters only as the original trigger for suspension, not revocation, and Federal Register publication merely announces a revocation that has already occurred automatically rather than effecting it. Watch for: Treating Federal Register publication as effecting revocation, which occurs automatically after the sixty-day cure period.
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 2024 examination.
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