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AA Customs Brokers, Inc. has a corporate customs broker license and a national permit. Tom, the individually licensed broker who was the corporation's national permit qualifier, has recently resigned from AA Customs Brokers, Inc. What is the maximum number of days from Tom's effective resignation date that AA Customs Brokers, Inc. has to find a new licensed customs broker to qualify its national permit to avoid their permit's revocation by operation of law?
180 days. Under 19 CFR 111.45(a), a partnership, association or corporation that fails to employ, during any continuous period of 180 days, a licensed customs broker who is its national permit qualifier has its national permit revoked by operation of law. The 120-day period in the same paragraph applies to a different gap: having no licensed member or officer to qualify the license itself. Tom qualified the permit, not the license, so the 180-day clock governs. (Separately, 111.30(b)(2) requires the broker to report the change to the processing Center within 10 calendar days.) Source: 19 CFR 111.45(a); 111.30(b)(2) (2024 ed.; unchanged in eCFR as at 7 Oct 2026). CBP answer key: D. CBP's citation: 19 CFR 111.45(a).
Candidates pick 120 days, which is the license-qualifier (officer/member) period, not the national permit qualifier period.
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