Dale Whitcomb

4w ago

Four in one morning is the booking, not the weather. One vessel, one consolidated booking, one release: four entries clear the same afternoon and four boxes are available at once, and nobody at the line spreads that for you. Hana, calendar...

4w ago

At that value the courier's own brokerage files the entry. Her buyer does not go looking for a broker; one turns up in her inbox. What they ask for: the invoice, a description that says loose and unmounted, the country the stones were...

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Truck at Windsor: the date printed on the bill does not decide it. Pickup does. Have the shipper's dispatch record and the GPS trace showing the driver loaded before 00:01 EDT on Sep 8, plus a bill or waybill dated Sep 7 at the latest....

4w ago1 like

First question. Are these IEEPA duties or ordinary ones? If ordinary, over 180 days after final liquidation is almost certainly the end. Nobody reopens a liquidated entry because the importer asked nicely. If IEEPA, different conversation:...

4w ago1 like

Motor, wheels, carries a load: vehicle. Heading 8704 first, sporting goods second. CBSA read it that way, and so have other administrations on similar items. The story gives the importer's heading and stays silent on CBSA's; my money is on...

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DDP from China was the mistake. Not the forwarder. Under DDP you are not the importer on the Melbourne entry. Somebody's agent will be. You will never see that declaration, the valuation on it, or the GST line. Ask the supplier today who...

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You need a broker. Most of us will not stand as your importer; too much exposure. You are the importer of record; the warehouse is ultimate consignee. Three things make a non-resident importer: an importer number (no US tax ID means CBP...

4w ago

Read the message next to the documents it leans on. The executive order says nothing about drawback. The Federal Register notice says nothing. The 301 statute says nothing. A CSMS message tells the trade how CBP intends to process...

4w ago3 likes

The package count is not a line figure. The master bill of lading is manifested at the total carton count, and that is where the packages live. Each HTS line on the CF214 carries its transaction quantity, nothing more. Putting 1 on one...

4w ago

Age answers the standards question, not birthplace. NHTSA treats a vehicle 25 years or older as exempt from its rules and from EPA. Yours is well past that. Exempt does not mean paperless. He still fills in the DOT and EPA forms and...

4w ago

In drawback, ten thousand is a small claim. Most desks see that on a single entry. Nobody wants a one-off from a stranger, because the filer carries it for years and gets a slice of not much. Two things before you book anything. Your...

4w ago

Confirm who is named importer before you believe the portal. It matches on entry numbers, and it only knows entries FedEx made on its own bond. A tracking number from an entry filed under any other importer comes back empty. That reads...

4w ago

Track the time. Every file, and the research that never lands on a file. Ask your broker for that record. If he cannot produce it, that is the problem, not the fee. On my desk it is a charge per additional tariff line: one article carrying...

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The broker is right. The POA comes from the importer of record, executed directly, not passed through a forwarder. ID on the signatory. Form 5106. CBP publishes a page on validating a POA; send the forwarder the link. Two things go wrong...

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What is the base heading? Heading 7307 had the same symptom after the last programming change: a legal combination stopped validating because somebody rewrote the logic behind it. Nothing in the rules stops that exclusion sitting with a...

1 Sept

CBP will not reject an entry for taking too much duty. Only for taking too little. That is the asymmetry you are up against: get it wrong in the government's favour and ACE waves it through every time. Nobody at CBP is going to look at...

1 Sept

Keep filing until the day you actually file suit. You can preserve a protest and still withdraw it once the lawsuit is in, that is the normal sequence. What you should not do is drop it early on the theory that it is already pointless,...

1 Sept

There is a tool built by someone who posts in this community, Ginger Control. Not locked into one platform's own bookings the way the Flexport one is. I still double check the output myself, same as with anything else, but it earns a place...

1 Sept

Nothing here is padding. The de minimis exemption that used to let anything under $800 move without a formal entry ended in April 2025. Every parcel gets a real entry now, whatever it is worth. Mill certificates and full origin data for...

1 Sept1 like

Same result at my desk. I read the executive order and the Federal Register notice line by line. Nothing in either one touches drawback. A CSMS message describes a rule, it does not make one. If the bulletin is not tracking the order it is...

1 Sept

That's the answer I needed. Declare at the crossing, bring both sets of paperwork, file whatever confirms the age exemption instead of arguing his way past it. I'll tell him it really is this simple. Nothing here needed to be complicated.

1 Sept

$10,000 is not a mid-sized claim. In drawback terms that is barely one line item on a normal case. Not a knock on you; it explains the reception you're getting. Before anyone starts building a claim, they need drawback-specific software...

1 Sept

This isn't FedEx stalling for no reason. CBP capped how many entries the couriers could submit in the first phase of this, and low-value entries filed under the courier's own bond backed up behind that cap. A blank tracking number is not...

1 Sept

That is the right place to draw it, and it matches how we are told to behave. Whenever brokers meet as a group, somebody reads the antitrust statement before anything else is discussed. Not because the subject is forbidden, but because the...

1 Sept1 like

Your employer is not stricter than most. Your employer is doing it properly. Direct execution by the importer of record, identification, and the 5106 is the floor, not the ceiling. I have had a client film himself signing so that there...

1 Sept2 likes

It is not one line. That is your whole problem. The exclusion does not stand on the entry by itself. It needs the additional code alongside it, sequenced so the system can read which code qualifies which. Build it as a parent and child on...