Pre-shipment inspection agency recognition: extended application deadline with provisional filing allowed; bank guarantee required before notification. Amendments require existing and new applicants for recognition as Pre-shipment Inspection Agencies to apply in ANF 2L by the prescribed cutoff, with late applications taken up after the subsequent month. Applicants may initially submit applications without the ANF-2L bank guarantee; however, the requisite bank guarantee or equivalent financial instrument must be submitted before they are notified as PSIA under the Foreign Trade Policy and Handbook of Procedures.