The behaviour depends on the type of customisation you make. In general, changes to existing items (like the form definition) overwrite the destination, but creation of items (e.g. creating new fields or views) are additive, and the import process will never
delete items
What customisations did you make in step 2 ?
Also, did you publish the changes after step 3 ?
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