Tomás Ferreira

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Since I asked: I found a calculator that also lets you build your own version and put it on your own site, logo and all, which is the part that actually matters for us. A generic public tool is fine for a one-off number. What I actually need is something my own team can point a customer at, without sending them off to somebody else's page while the booking clock is running.

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That gap between the portal opening and money actually landing is exactly where the cost sits. Every week a claim sits unpaid is a week your cash is not your cash, and demurrage does not care whose fault the queue is. I heard the litigant portal that was supposed to open has not, with nothing said why. That is also why funds now offer to buy these claims outright, north of ninety cents on the dollar, for anyone who would rather have cash now than wait out the process.

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Fair enough on the mechanics. What I am still not sold on is whether a parcel this size belongs in the same queue as a full container load purely because a threshold went away. The paperwork chase is the same either way, but the cost of the wait is not: a container has a sailing to hold, this box holds up nothing behind it. I would want to hear from someone who has actually argued that distinction with a broker before I accept it as simply how it is now.

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The practical question is what to do with drawback claims sitting in the queue while everyone argues over the bulletin. More brokers are apparently saying the same thing: no EO, no basis, wrong bulletin. Until CBP says so in writing, I would keep building the claims but hold before filing. That way you lose no time if it gets walked back, and you have not filed against a rule that never existed.