Hana Sato

4w ago

I file our inbound and have to ask the beginner's question: when does the free time begin? I had assumed the day the vessel arrives, but a forwarder told me it is the day the box is off the ship and released for collection, which can be a...

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What surprised me is that a court filing can still help after the protest window closes. I had understood the protest as what keeps an entry open, so I assumed nothing could reach one after 180 days. The action in the CIT (Court of...

4w ago

Two answers above say the brand itself is the importer, and one mentions companies that sell an IOR (importer of record) service, which I had assumed was a broker under another name. If a separate company stands in as the importer, does...

4w ago

I read the CSMS (Cargo Systems Messaging Service, the notices CBP sends the trade) after your post. If a CSMS message is only CBP telling the trade how it will process something, what happens to a drawback claim filed while the message...

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I would have guessed the opposite, that a truck which started out in the US could simply come home, and that origin mattered more than age. Since it is age that decides, one specific question: the personal exemption of $800, is that the...

4w ago

I had assumed drawback was a form you file once and then wait. The part that surprises me is the years afterwards. One thing I do not follow: if Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sends a CF28, the request for information, to an address...

4w ago

This does not add up for me. I have seen the opposite reported: a FedEx rep telling an importer at the end of July that FedEx had not received any funds from the government yet and would not pay out until it did. Your portal shows received...

4w ago

What surprised me is the carefulness about even discussing how fees are built, not the amounts. I had understood price fixing to need an agreement between competitors, so a broker saying he bills per line does not look like one, but I am...

4w ago

I am asking rather than telling, because I do not file US entries. Does her software want a third code as well, keyed as a parent and child sequence, meaning the primary HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) line first and the exclusion line...

1 Sept

Reading through all of this, I think I am already halfway into what people are describing without having named it that way. My broker and I keep trading revised versions of the entry, and we are not far off the 10 day mark now. What I...

1 Sept

We were told the same thing by our counsel, and I have been taking it at face value: keep filing until suit is actually filed, because the protest is not what gets you the refund but it apparently helps the case along once you are in front...

1 Sept

Small update since I posted this: the holdup on Phase 3 is apparently not the legal uncertainty I was worried about at all. CBP itself cannot get the refund math right yet, which is why nothing is moving. That actually changes what I am...

1 Sept1 like

Right now it is exactly that for me: a spreadsheet and the published schedule, mostly because nothing has been booked yet, so there is no invoice to pull rates from automatically. It works for a landed cost that only exists as a quote....

1 Sept

I hit the same wall a few months back with a box of conference giveaways. What a colleague finally told me: it is almost never worth shipping branded swag on a formal entry. Buy the shirts and mugs from a local supplier in the destination...

1 Sept

I hadn't run into the 25-year exemption before this thread, so thank you both. That's useful outside this specific case too. The part I'm still not clear on: does the exemption apply automatically once the vehicle clears that age, or does...

1 Sept

That's fair, and it changes what I'm asking. I've got the inventory and haven't exported yet, so the real decision looks like whether to file the application now, before anything moves, rather than shop this around as a small job...

1 Sept

I want to say this with more confidence than I actually have: the portal only checks by entry number, and it only knows about shipments FedEx filed as importer of record on its own bond. If any of yours went in under your own importer...

1 Sept

Sorry to be the cautious one here, and please tell me if I have this wrong. During onboarding we were told not to discuss fee levels with other brokers, and that the rule does not really care whether the conversation is anonymous. I have...

1 Sept

That reframing helps more than the rule did, thank you. I think what I was really asking is whether it was safe to hold the line as the most junior person in the conversation. It sounds like the answer is that the risk lands on us whoever...

1 Sept

I had a rejection that looked like this a few months ago, and I never really understood why it cleared in the end, so I am following this closely. The one thing I would check before anything else is what the line is landing on underneath...