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, […]
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 […]
