Drawback

Question: What methods are the members using to satisfy thecommercial-interchangeability recordkeeping requirement for unused merchandisesubstitution drawback?  Our part numbering system essentially guarantees commercialinterchangeability.  We are wondering  whether we can rely on a statement ofour part numbering process as a sufficient record of commercialinterchangeability, as opposed to keeping the more traditionally recognizeddocuments (e.g., BOMs, import-export-documentation, engineeringspecifications, […]

Question: We have a product being sent from India to NYC where another part is affixed to it and then it is shipped to Canada. It does not undergo a tariff shift or substantial transformation and is dutiable going into CA.   When we ship it to CA, is it eligible for U.S. drawback? I’m […]

Question:   I am getting conflicting information on submitting a drawback via disc. One person is telling me it is just a summary of all the information for the drawback and another saying it is formatted information. If anyone has any information they can share it would be appreciated  

Question: I am getting conflicting information on submitting a drawback via disc. One person is telling me it is jus a summary of all the information for the drawback and another saying it is formatted information. If anyone has any information they can share it would be appreciated

Question: My company exports product which it buys from a U.S. firm, which hasimported and warehoused the product until we have need for it.  As theexporter, we  would like to claim drawback but are having trouble gettingback-up import information from the IOR.  Has anyone else had this problem? I can’t think of a way to […]

Question:I am in the midst of implementing a drawback program and , yes, I am going back three years. My problem is that my Mexican customers refuse to sign the waivers and provide a copy of their Pedimentos. Why? They are concerned that my drawback activities would place them on CBP’s radar and place them […]

Drawback question: So we import oximeters from Mexico, we pay duty, send them to a sterilizer, and them export them overseas, does anybody know if we could claim duty drawback as UNUSED merchandise considering this process? The regulations don’t mention anything specific as far as the sterilization as an allowable operation for this type of […]

Question: Products X import from various Asian countries, export to Canada, and returnback to USA due to customer return, some of the return will be scraped orexported after tested and examined, are we looking at three drawback claimopportunities here (2 for the US import and 1 for the Canada import)?  Dueto the fact that substitution […]

Question: Has any of the membership had any experience with penalty situationsunder 593a for drawback?  What type of offenses are seen asnegligence and which as fraud?  What sort of grounds for mitigationare there?  Does Customs release any sort of statistics on thefrequency of these cases as I’ve heard they do with 592 ones?  Wouldbe interested […]

Question:If a company already has a Same Condition Drawback application approved by CBP, would a new application be required for approved by CBP for Manufacturing Drawback?

Question: A customer of ours has purchased for many years a product we’ve imported from a sister company.  Our customer has subsequently exported this product we’ve imported.   This customer has just come to us asking for all of our import records going back to 2004 for product we imported and subsequently sold to them. […]

Question:                                                             I’m interested in the advice of other retailers who are the IOR and file drawback entries for their imports being returned to overseas vendors. How cumbersome is it for you to keep inventory records for the necessary 3 years from date duty refund is received?  What type of inventory records do you maintain for […]