Regarding FROB cargo, when a freight forwarder has a house bill shipment for Montreal and the carrier vessel calls Halifax first, then discharges the Montreal cargo in New York for the primary carrier arranged transport into Canada, what is the freight forwarder responsible for filing?

Regarding FROB cargo, when a freight forwarder has a house bill shipment for Montreal and the carrier vessel calls Halifax first, then discharges the Montreal cargo in New York for the primary carrier arranged transport into Canada, what is the freight forwarder responsible for filing?

Under current regulations, a supplementary report is required for each consolidated shipment within the FROB movement, so the shipment will require a FROB declaration.

When the shipment returns to Canada as an import movement, an electronic house bill transmission (eHBL) will be required for each shipment. That eHBL 8000 will be ‘attached’ to a truck or rail primary cargo control number.

It is important to note that the CCN used for the electronic supplementary transmission cannot be used for the electronic house bill transmission. The CBSA is working on a systems enhancement that will allow for the recognition of the movement type with respect to the CCN number which would allow the same number to be used for different movement types, however, this functionality is not yet available.

[Editor’s Note: FROB filing can be the current S10 supplementary filings by the marine carrier or the freight forwarder as they are today. Highly recommended that if using the same 8000 number, to add an ‘S’ for the S10 Supplementary until the CBSA can get that fixed.]