Drawback

QUESTION: A Vendor recently approached us to make a pitch for what they call “drawback trading”.  Their process involves matching two different, unrelated clients based on the industry that they’re in, and acting as a temporary go-between to file drawback claims.  They essentially transfer imported goods from Client A over to themselves as the importer […]

QUESTION: We would like to know is this true a duty drawback claim is automatically deemed liquidated one year after the date it was filed, CBP may request a one year extension if they have good cause. In fact, CBP may request a maximum of 3 of these extensions. We have a bond set up […]

QUESTION: I am in desperate need for guidance. I am a LCB and the Trade Compliance Manager of a medium size company and have no help. My role was recently transitioned from Legal to Supply Chain and now my new supervisor wants me to do Duty Drawback and he insist that I don’t need help […]

QUESTION: We are working on our first destruction drawback from filling out CBP Form 7553 with Box 3 checked for Intended Action to destroy the goods.  When filling out Box 8 for Method of Destruction, what is sufficient for destroying metal and wood furniture items?  We were told by our agent filing the claim on […]

QUESTION: Has anyone evaluated the pros and cons of going down a specific drawback ruling route versus using one of the general drawback rulings? Is there any difference in processing time and payment of claims? %%%%%%%%%% ANSWER: Depending on the type of general ruling, you may have to match at the part number level. You […]

QUESTION: We have zone tracked items that were straight cleared by mistake (and duty paid) and moved into the zone by domestic status. Can we do a duty drawback on this? And how would we go about that?  ========== Answers: If you meant to ask about switching these from domestic to zone status and filing a […]

QUESTION: Other than VAT, anyone have any experience with duty drawback out of the Netherlands? We import to a 3PL in NL and re-export to various countries. We do claim refund of VAT, but not tariff. Looking to be pointed in the right direction. %%%%%%%%%% ANSWERS: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/tradehelp/duty-drawback Have you reviewed this site? %%%%%%%%%% You should […]

QUESTION: When TFTEA started in 2018 I understand that Drawback Companies were to send a letter called “limited modification” into US Customs Drawback letting everyone at Customs know that the Drawback waivers for their clients would be used for TFTEA that were already approved. I understood this was only for Manufacturing? Is there another new […]

QUESTION: Our company is conducting a feasibility study to implement a program to take advantage of the manufacturing drawbacks (section 1313 a and b). Can anyone in the community can share their procedures how to obtain the import data when the drawback claimant is not the importer of record. ============ Answer: To claim drawback, the […]

QUESTION: We have filed several Section 301 exclusion requests for products which are eligible for drawback. Any concerns if we continue to file drawback for these products while the exclusion requests are under review? ========== You can continue filing Duty Drawback while your exclusion is pending. With your duty drawback you should be able to […]

QUESTION: I am proposing implementing a duty drawback program to help recover some the of section 301 costs for items made in China, imported to a warehouse in the U.S., then exported to a foreign country or shipped to the U.S. side of the U.S-Mexico border. For the latter, my company was not the exporter […]