Border Agency Extends Paperwork for Temporary Import Bonds
Published Date: 11/26/2025
Notice
Summary
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is asking to keep collecting info for extending bonds on temporary imports. If you import stuff temporarily and need more time, this affects you! They want your feedback by December 26, 2025, but no changes to fees or rules are planned—just keeping the process going smoothly.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Importers can extend temporary import bonds
Importers and brokers may request an extension of a temporary importation bond by submitting CBP Form 3173. The period may be extended for not more than two further periods of 1 year each, provided the articles have not been exported or destroyed and liquidated damages have not been assessed before receipt of the application.
Paperwork continues for temporary imports
CBP will continue collecting CBP Form 3173 (Application for Extension of Bond for Temporary Importation) from businesses. The agency estimates 1,822 respondents, 14 responses per respondent (25,508 total responses), 13 minutes per response, and 5,535 total annual burden hours.
Electronic filing allowed for some participants
Under the National Customs Automation Program, certain Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) participants can submit electronic images of specified CBP and Participating Government Agency forms and supporting information through the Document Image System (DIS) and via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Subsequent DIS deployment phases may incorporate additional forms.
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