What does bonded mean?
Sometimes a shipment is not allowed entry into Canada or the US if the customs officer has found incorrect information on the documentation. If the driver is bonded, customs will allow the driver to put the shipment in bond and take it to a bonded or inland sufferance warehouse where the shipment will wait for the correct documents. Bonded is a term that is also used when a shipment is traveling through a country to get to another country (like a shipment from Canada to Mexico that has to go through the US). Since the product will not be used or consumed in the US, it travels in bond under a transit bond through the US and is customs cleared at the US-Mexico port of entry.
