Immigration and Customs at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

Immigration and Customs at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport?
I am a US citizen and I am traveling from Canada to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. What is the process of customs at Cleveland airport? What are steps from start to finish, because I have a another flight in 1 hr and 13 minutes? I need exact directions (where to pick up my bags and do the customs and check in again). Ohh yea one more question, do I need to pick my bags at baggage claim where domestic baggage claims are? -Thank you so much if you can help.
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most flights from canada preclear IN canada BEFORE your flight to the USA so when you arrive you are consider a domestic passenger and you wont need to though customs in cleveland so you would just go to your connecting flights gate see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_preclearance and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_preclearance#Canada
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Given the short connection time you mention, there is no way you're going to be going through Customs and Immigration in Cleveland. As the first answer mentions, you'll be going through US Customs and Immigration at your departure airport in Canada -- even before you board the flight to CLE. (Details of this program are listed at the link below -- the US does preclearance at most of the major Canadian airports, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax.) Once you have gone through this process, you are, for all intents and purposes, boarding a flight that is treated as domestic once it reaches CLE, so the only thing you'll need to do when you get there is to go to your new gate for your connecting flight. Check-in for all of your flights will be done at your origin airport, and the transfer of luggage to the second flight will be done for you just like any other domestic flight.