Customs Seeks Feedback on Import Entry Summary Revisions
Published Date: 12/1/2025
Notice
Summary
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is updating the paperwork they collect for entry summaries, which affects businesses importing goods. They’re asking for public feedback by December 31, 2025, to make sure the process is clear and efficient. No big cost changes are expected, but your input can help shape how easy or tricky this paperwork is in the future!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Estimated paperwork burden totals
CBP provides estimated respondent and burden numbers for Form 7501 submissions: Formal Entry (electronic) — 2,336 respondents, 9,903 annual responses per respondent, 23,133,408 total annual responses, 5 minutes per response, 1,920,073 total annual burden hours. Formal Entry (paper) — 28 respondents, 277,284 total annual responses, 20 minutes per response, 92,336 burden hours. Formal Entry w/Softwood Lumber Act (paper) — 210 respondents, 400,050 total annual responses, 40 minutes per response, 266,433 burden hours. Informal Entry (electronic) — 1,883 respondents, 4,861,906 total annual responses, 5 minutes per response, 403,538 burden hours. Informal Entry (paper) — 19 respondents, 49,058 total annual responses, 15 minutes per response, 12,265 burden hours. 7501A Document/Payment Transmittal (paper) — 20 respondents, 1,200 total annual responses, 15 minutes per response, 300 burden hours. Exclusion Approval Information Letter — 5,000 respondents, 5,000 total annual responses, 3 minutes per response, 250 burden hours.
New steel & aluminum data fields
If you import certain steel or aluminum products, you will be required to report the steel 'country of melt and pour' and the aluminum 'countries of smelt and cast' on CBP Form 7501 for those HTS classifications subject to Commerce Department license applications and, where applicable, Section 232 measures.
Form 7501 data used to enforce tariffs/quotas
CBP will use the Form 7501 data to determine the proper duties, applicable fees, taxes, and which imports are subject to quota, and to enforce tariff-rate quotas established by Presidential Proclamations covering products of the European Union (Proclamations 10327 and 10328, Dec. 27, 2021), Japan (steel-only, Proclamation 10356, Mar. 31, 2022), and the United Kingdom (Proclamations 10405 and 10406, May 31, 2022).
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