Priya Whitfield

4w ago

Two questions in your friend's post, being run together. Whether a formal entry is needed turns on the value of the parcel, not on whether duty is owed, so a stone that owes nothing above the mark is still entered formally. Whether duty is...

4w ago

Two questions sit in your post, one asked and one not. Asked: which event counts when paper and pickup disagree. The dispatch record usually carries the point, because the exemption is written around the movement, not the paper; the losing...

4w ago

Three questions; the first governs the rest. First, whether the 180-day window ends it for ordinary duties: yes as a rule, the refusal being enforcement agreeing. Second, whether IEEPA duties change that: they do; recovery runs through an...

4w ago

The number is the part to read. Under self-assessment the importer's heading stands until the agency looks, and when it looks it reaches back across every entry it can still reassess. That is how a few hundred trolleys become $183K. The...

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Two questions, two remedies. The first is recovering the shipment: suing a forwarder in another jurisdiction is unrealistic in practice, so the useful lever is the regulator. With the company's registered name, the agreed price and the...

4w ago

One thing the answer above assumes and does not say: the bond comes before the warehouse contract, not after. I am not US-qualified, but the sequence holds in every regime I have seen. Sureties hesitate over a foreign principal, and...

4w ago

Two questions here, not one. First, can CBP withdraw drawback on these tariffs? The order, the notice and the 301 statute are silent on drawback, so a message removing it on the agency's authority alone would be open to challenge under the...

4w ago

Two questions here. On standards, age decides rather than origin, as Dale says, and being Californian earns him nothing extra. On duty, what has been said is that he pays on value above the personal exemption; nobody has said whether the...

4w ago

Your client has two questions: can someone file this, and is it worth anyone's while. On the first, Dale has named the reason, and I would only add that a one-off client is rarely around when the questions arrive. On the second, without a...

4w ago

Two questions are tangled here. First, parcels the portal has nothing on: those entries have not left CBP yet, and nothing FedEx does will hurry them. Second, parcels marked received but unpaid. For that group there is no customs remedy to...

4w ago

There are two questions here. First, whether the broker may insist on direct execution, ID and the identity form: yes. The power of attorney binds this broker alone, so one signed elsewhere is beside the point. Second, whether the...

1 Sept1 like

There are two different kinds of change worth keeping apart here. The chapter structure is largely stable and does not shift quickly. The subheadings inside a chapter shift far more often, with every tariff action that touches them. An old...

1 Sept

There are two different mechanisms here, and they are not symmetrical. Understate duty, and CBP raises it on a CF28. Overstate duty because a code should never have been added, and there is no CF29 arriving to correct it in your favour....

1 Sept

Your two lawyers are probably both right, because they are answering different questions. One is telling you a protest is not a precondition to filing suit. The other is telling you it is still the prudent move while suit is pending. Once...

1 Sept1 like

Three separate tracks are being talked about here as one, and that is most of the confusion. Filing suit preserves your claim independently. Filing a protest is the administrative route through CBP directly. Waiting for a final ruling...

1 Sept

Two questions sit inside this thread, and one tool rarely answers both. For classification: does it explain its reasoning, and say plainly when it is guessing, or hand back a definite answer regardless? The second kind is not more...

1 Sept2 likes

The antidumping flag is the part worth pausing on, not the paperwork generally. A broker who tells you a code you supplied could fall inside scope, before the entry is filed, is protecting you from being assessed duties later with no...

1 Sept

There are two separate questions folded into this thread: what the order currently permits, and what CBP is currently saying it permits. Those are not always the same document. What you are describing now sits in the second category: word...

1 Sept2 likes

Two questions, one principle. The master bill and the CF214 line are not counting the same thing: the bill records physical cartons once, and each line records its own transaction quantity, so zeroing packages on lines two onward is very...

1 Sept

There are two separate questions here, and they resolve differently. Age is what exempts the vehicle from EPA and safety-standard compliance. That does not depend on where it has been registered since, only on how old it is. It does not...

1 Sept

There are two obligations here, not one. The claim itself is straightforward, if it is really only a few SKUs. What filing it commits you to afterward is not: a compliance obligation running years past the filing, during which the...

1 Sept1 like

Separate what's actually happening before deciding who to chase. If your tracking shows nothing yet, the money has not reached the carrier, and pressuring their front-line staff will not change that. If it already shows as received, the...

1 Sept

There are two problems here, and only one of them is about money. The first is evidential. If you cannot show where the four hours went, you have no basis for the conversation with the client and you will lose it. Record time against the...

1 Sept2 likes

There are two questions in your post and they have different answers. The first is whether your standard is correct. It is, and the reason is that the power of attorney is the instrument by which you acquire the authority to act at all. If...