Single ISF Filing Requirements

ISF Requirements

Your factory must provide the following information

Here are the ISF requirements that are needed from your factory/supplier in order to file an ISF. Also, your supplier/factory/logistics company will email you documents (Invoice, Packing-list, Bill of Lading / BL, ISF Form) +HTC code + Photos Picture of Import items + if any, Fumigation-Certificate/Report +if any, Country-of-Origin(notice sample) +Materials that are made out of, on all doc's, if +photos of labels, marks, and stamps on the outside of the boxes/crates/shipping, as well as other papers relating to your shipment, and if any FDA, USDA, Lacey-Act, FWS, any US Government Agencies, ADD / CVD, Hazard, Trademark, Patent, Fumigation-Certificate/Report & etc. Please send us all of your paperwork. (All documents must be written in US dollars and must be in English.)

If you have not received any of the above documents, we can contact your factory/supplier and we will do the most of the work for you, all we need is your factory/supplier information (email & name) or you can give your supplier our email and they will email us, and we will do the most of the work for you.

If an ISF is not filed 24 hours before your shipment/vessel is scheduled to leave a foreign port, US Customs may levy a penalty, lien, fine, or liquidated damages of up to $5,000.00 per shipment.

List of ISF Requirements must have

List of Single ISF Requirements Must Have

  1. Seller info / Over-Sea Seller:
    Ex. Company Name, Street Address. Fl./Rm/Suite (If any). City, State. Zip
  2. Container Stuffing Location:
    Ex. Company Name, Street Address. Fl./Rm/Suite (If any). City, State. Zip
  3. 3. Consolidator / Stuffer:
    Ex. Company Name, Street Address. Fl./Rm/Suite (If any). City, State. Zip
  4. SCAC code and Master Bill Lading # (MBL)
  5. SCAC code and House Bill of Lading # (HBL)
  6. SCAC code and Automated Manifest System # (AMS)
  7. mm/dd/yyyy of depart from Foreign Port
  8. mm/dd/yyyy of arrival at U.S. Port
  9. Name of U.S. Port arriving at
  10. Value of this shipment in U.S. Dollar.
  11. Kilograms / KG / Weight of this shipment?.
  12. How many Boxes/Cartons/Crates are in this shipment
  13. HTC / HTS Code Harmonized Tariff Code (Duty/Tax Code)
  14. How many pallets are on this shipment? (if any), LCL?, bulk box (aka: bulk bin/bulk containers, skid box, tote box or gaylord), 20 ft/TUE container?, 40, 40HQ, 45/FEU container?, Break Bulk?, refrigerated and or etc.

If you have these requirements above, file ISF now by calling us or online filing form 24/7.

If you are filing a LATE ISF, meaning that your shipment is about to leave a foreign port or has already left a foreign port, contact us 310-928-1180.