Schedule K is a
geographic coding scheme originally developed by the
United States Maritime Administration
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and currently maintained by the
to identify seaports handling waterborne shipments involved with foreign trade of the United States. The codes consist of five numeric digits and are primarily for electronic communications concerning
U.S. Customs
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.
USCBP Automated Commercial Environment
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Code lists are maintained and published by the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center division of the .
Each country's ports share a common three digit prefix which is unique per country (with the exception of Canada which has 21 prefixes grouped by geographic region). For example all ports in the Denmark begin with 409, while the United Kingdom prefix is 412.
The system is organized such that the first digit roughly corresponds to a broad geographic region:
External links
Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center
US Customs & Border Patrol: Where can I find foreign port codes or Schedule K codes?
Automated Manifest Interface Requirements - Ocean ACE M1 Appendix F (February 2017)
References
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Geocodes