Question: I am quite new to the field of importing. I’ve been challenged to investigate Duty Drawback. Before I start, I thought I would come to the experts and ask the following questions. 1. Is it a legal obligation to assist your customers in duty drawback information? 2. Does your organization place […]
QUESTION: We import very special and high price o-rings from Taiwan, the o-rings are used in the manufacture of a sprayer we make here in the United States. We export the sprayer to China and claim drawback on the o-rings that are used in the sprayer. China tries to sell the sprayers locally […]
Question: We’restarting a duty drawback program and some of our exports are shipped to Mexico. Is the pedimento needed as proof of export for shipments to Mexico? ***********
QUESTION: We’re starting a duty drawback program and some of our exports are shipped to Mexico. Is the pedimento needed as proof of export for shipments to Mexico? *************
Question: According to CFR 19 Part 191 drawback, HMF are not supposed to be refunded under drawback. We have been filing unused Canada drawback for years and have been given refund on the HMF. Does anyone have an idea why Customs would give us the refund check after the liquidation for the HMF ***********
Question:We import a product wholesale into Canada and re-sell into the U.S. after an alteration that limits us to ‘lesser of two duties’ drawback. If 10,000 units are imported into Canada at a transaction value of $1.00/ea with a 6 % duty, total duty payable is $ 600.00 The products after alteration are exported for […]
Question: We are looking at implementing a drawback program and are currentlyresearching drawback brokers. We’d like to interview a few prospects todetermine who will be the best fit for our company. Can the membershipprovide some guidance as to what types of questions we should be asking theprospective brokers?
Question:Question on unused, substitution drawback. To meet the unused requirement, do both the imported item and substituted (exported) item need to be unused, or just the substituted item?
Question: Our parent company in Europe is in the process of establishing a FTZ inthe U.S. where they will keep large amounts of inventory for both the Northand South America markets. They have agreed to take back much of theinventory that we have purchased from them over the years. Can we export ourpreviously imported inventory […]
Question:We are looking for a company interested in benchmarking that currently utilizes electronic documents and files duty drawback. We have a robust drawback program and are considering going to electronic documents. It would be beneficial to learn how other companies do this. ******************************************************************
Questions: Any of the membership have experience with “drawback trading”? This is where an outside company makes itself a party to an assortment of other companies’ imports and exports transactions, so that the outside company can then arrange drawback claims confidentially based on the 1313p HTS numbers. How’s it working out in actual practice compared […]
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, […]
