Question: I am hoping that the membership can help me out. Currently we have abroker who submits our reconciliations for us. All of our entries areflagged for value and the broker fee for submitting these to customs ishigh. We send a spreadsheet with entries that need adjusting but mostof our entries do not need any […]
Question: What type of sampling can be done under CBP3499 under a warehouse entry. Answer: Per Customs Regulations part 19.11(d) the goods subject to amanipulation order under form 3499 can only be cleaned, sorted, orrepacked or otherwise changed in condition (there are some CustomsDecisions on what this encompasses) but not manufactured.
Question: We’d like advice on how members (or their brokers) handle the entry writing for this situation: A binding ruling was issued making the imported item a “set”; most of the pieces in the set are made in a GSP country, but one piece is made in PRC. Assembled and shipped directly from the […]
Question: Doing some post audits personally, I realized that we were not checkingnet weights on the 7501. In my audits I found that a large portion of ournet weights were technically not accurate- not matching the weights declaredon the packing lists. Checking with my broker, turns out they were lettingtheir system pro-rate out the net […]
Question: How precise are you attempting to be with freight charges on the 7501? More specifically, how are you managing this compliance matter on imports from Canada via truck where the fuel surcharges fluctuate weekly – to/from multiple origins/destinations using multiple carriers?? It would be a full time job to track all of these variations […]
Question:Is a U.S. Company/Importer of Record permitted to provide a copy of the 7501 to the foreign shipper for any purpose including to “close out” the foreign shipper’s export license? Are there any CBP or Census mandates prohibiting providing the 7501 to foreign companies or governments?
Question: We have a discovered an entry in our audit process where the Ace data does not match the 7501 data for a particular entry due to HTS differences. The initial 3461 has an incorret HTS on it. The 7501 has the correct HTS because the broker caught the error prior to 10th day. However, […]
Question: Our broker prints the 7501 at the same time the 3461 is printed and therefore the pre-arrival (paperless) release info is indicated in box 4. They include that copy of the 7501 with their invoice to us. Of course it’s nice to know all the pre-arrival releases we receive, but we want to record […]
Question: What does the ACE Entry Summary mean to the Importer? What would we need to do in order to file our own entries via ACE or am I not understanding the concept of this ACE module.
Question: I am wondering what other importers use their liquidations notices for in the audit process. Liquidation notices are not a required record keep in document but they are the final notice of the amount of duty accessed to an entry. Do other importers use this notice in the post entry audit process to […]
Question: How important is it to audit the MID on a 7501 to ensure it is accurate? >From time to time we see it is off by a letter or two. It doesn’t seem like an issue that causes any revenue loss. Would you request the entry to be amended if it was not 100% […]
Does Customs expect an importer to file the courtesy liquidation notice in each import file? Do you record the liquidation date in a database of entry information? Why? One purpose I see is to identify whether a correction should be made using a PEA before liquidation or a Protest up to 180 days after liquidation, […]
