Entry, clearance, audits
mpf cap moved to 670.86 on october 1, floor to 34.58. rate still 0.3464 percent, only the limits moved. most housewares boxes dont get near the cap alone so it just runs as percent on value, one entry per box. what i keep meaning to ask:...
Correction first, because I keep seeing it repeated. Certex did not reach customs warehousing on 19 September. That date was transit, and only a pilot. Dutch Customs put warehousing on 31 October, alongside simplified declarations. Entry...
My port, so read it as mine, and as what I have been told rather than what I have cleared. Since 1 September an importer into Kenya has to obtain and keep, for five years, the export declaration issued in the country of export. Section...
Applications for the centralised clearance authorisation open in the Netherlands this month. Read the representation section before you send one. The declaration that places goods under customs warehousing cannot come from an indirect...
Forgive me for bringing something a day old, as I may have read it wrongly. From 1 October, declarations in Sri Lanka are paperless. Declaration and supporting documents now go through their ASYCUDA system under valid digital signatures,...
D11-6-8 was reissued on September 9, rewritten for the CAD. Paragraph 17 is the one to read twice. Four years to re-determine, five if the adjustment lands in that last year. The correction you cannot time: 90 days from reason to believe....
Notice landed on the fourteenth. Third-party air carriers on courier low value shipments no longer need PIP. Two conditions survive: carrier stays bonded, participant keeps its own PIP in air mode. No proof named for either. D17-4-0 still...
Ask anything about Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) here, before the session or after it. The speakers read this thread.
word out of cbp's cargo security summit last week is validators are leaning hard on the actual paper. filled in, dated, signed checklists and seal records, not a blank template in the portal. thing is our boxes get stuffed and sealed at...
Quarterly notice went up last week. October through December: what you owe accrues at 7 percent, what CBP owes back pays 6 if you are incorporated. Same code section both directions. I approve those bills and have never once recomputed an...
Chilled and frozen into Tauranga, so not my product and not my border. Still reading it twice. Fresh pomelo out of Vietnam stopped on 15 September, six months to begin with, after around seventy percent of arrivals since April showed pest...
Our US side takes our parts into a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) and has sent me their draft CF214, the zone admission form, to check against our packing list. One pallet carries goods under five HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) lines, and each...
Our US subsidiary is the importer of record on a small first shipment, and the forwarder arranged the broker. The broker now wants the power of attorney (POA) signed directly by an officer of the subsidiary, a copy of that person's photo...
A forwarder sent us a power of attorney for a first-time importer, filled in carelessly, and became annoyed when we said we needed it executed directly by the importer of record, with photo identification and a CBP Form 5106. He kept...
Not a trailer this time, but it is crossing. A colleague is transferring to the customer's US plant and wants to drive his own pickup up: a 1986 Toyota 4x4 that started life in California and went into Mexico in 2002. He holds the original...
Not my parcel. A seller in my cross-border group sends loose emeralds to US buyers and asked me what her buyer faces once an order passes $2,500; my rattan has never been worth enough to find out. As she understands it, above that mark the...
A question for the group — from the compliance corner, where new CBP rulemakings tend to raise both eyebrows and blood pressure: CBP’s new Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking under Executive Order 14411 looks like the beginning of a...
A CBP bulletin, a CSMS message, started circulating that reads as though drawback (the refund on duties for goods that are later exported) is no longer available for the newest round of 301 tariffs. I went back through the executive order...
Shipping decor from Binh Duong parcel by parcel to US buyers is slow and postage eats the margin, so I am putting stock into a warehouse in Atlanta. The pieces stay mine until they sell through my own site. The warehouse says flatly it...
I've got a one-time drawback claim to file (duty over $10,000 on non-conforming goods), and the broker who handled the original import doesn't do drawback at all. Everyone else I've called either wants a bigger claim than mine or only...
A client of ours in the US brought in a consignment that turned out not to conform, paid just over $10,000 in duty, and wants to send it back out and recover the duty under drawback (the refund you get when imported goods leave again). The...
One pallet, five HTS lines on a CF214 admission. The packages field will not take five separate entries against a single pallet, so I put the full count on the first line and zero on the rest, keeping quantity, value and weight per line as...
Has anyone else read CSMS 69535943? It reads as CBP saying there is no drawback on the new 301 tariffs. One of our clients runs exactly the flow this touches: goods come into the US and pay the 301 duty, come back out through our desk, and...
Client has a 1986 pickup, originally titled in California, exported to Mexico in 2002 and registered there in his name ever since. He has the original US title, the export paperwork, and the current Mexican registration. He wants it back...
We have a stack of entries in IEEPA refund limbo, and our broker has been filing a protest on each one as it comes in. Now that phase 3 wants a lawsuit filed instead of a protest, nobody on our side can tell me whether the protests still...
