CSMS # 65741993 - Information on Customs User Fee Changes Effective October 1, 2025

Import/Export - International Shipping

Pursuant to the General Notice (90 FR 34665 [links-1.govdelivery.com]) published July 23, 2025, adjustments to certain customs user fees and corresponding limitations, as codified in 19 U.S.C. § 58c, will take effect on October 1, 2025. These adjustments are being made in accordance with the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act of 2015 (FAST Act), Public Law 114-94.

The General Notice may be accessed at:https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/23/2025-13869/customs-user-fees-to-be-adjusted-for-inflation-in-fiscal-year-2026-cbp-dec-25-10 [links-1.govdelivery.com]

Key Points

1. The Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) ad valorem rate of 0.3464% will NOT change.

2. The MPF minimum and maximum for formal entries (class code 499) will change.

   • The minimum will change from $32.71 to $33.58; and

   • The maximum will change from $634.62 to $651.50.

   
   

Other Changes

1. The fee for Informal Entry/Release, automated and not prepared by CBP personnel (class code 311a), will change to $2.69.

2. The Express Consignment Carrier/Centralized Hub Facility fee will change to $1.34 per individual waybill/bill of lading.

   • An individual air waybill is the bill at the lowest level, and is not a master bill or other consolidated document.  See 82 FR 50523 [links-1.govdelivery.com] (Nov. 1, 2017).

3. The Commercial Vessel (class code 485) or Commercial Aircraft (class code 495) Passenger Arrival customs fee will change to $7.39 per passenger.

4. The Commercial Vessel Passenger Arrival from Exempt Areas (class code 484) customs fee will change to $2.59 per passenger.

5. The Commercial Truck Arrival fee (class code 492) will change to $7.35. 

   • The Commercial Truck Arrival Fee is the CBP fee only; it does not include the fiscal year 2026 United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Agricultural and Quarantine Inspection (AQI) User Fee ($13.45) that is collected by CBP on behalf of USDA to make a total Single Crossing Fee of $20.80.  See 7 CFR 354.3(c) and 19 CFR 24.22(c)(1).

   • Once eighteen Single Crossing Fees have been paid and used for a vehicle identification number (VIN)/vehicle in a Decal and Transponder Online Procurement System (DTOPS) account within a calendar year, the payment required for the nineteenth (and subsequent) single-crossing is only the $13.45 AQI fee and no longer includes CBP's $7.35 Commercial Truck Arrival fee (for the remainder of that calendar year).

6. The Dutiable Mail fee (class code 496) will change to $7.39.

Please see the General Notice for the full list of fees that are changing.

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