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, […]
Can someone share any knowledge on northern border clearances where brokers are not required to either transmit or print the 3461. For some of our northern border entries we recieve our entry packets with the 7501 attached but no 3461, we asked about getting the 3461 but our broker says that they are not required. […]
We just started handling land cross border import entries and we came across a 7501 showing entry date (field 4) days ahead of the release date. Customs released: 7/28/05, Entry Date on the 7501: 8/11/05. Import Date (Field 27): 7/28/05 I was wondering if anyone has seen a situation like this one, and if that […]
Hi! Can the members please advise what advantages and disadvantages they have experienced in filing entries directly with CBP instead of using a broker? In addition, who would they recommend as an ABI software vendor/supplier and what has been the typical cost for this?
Company A in Europe sends company B in the U.S. a robot for a trade show on a carnet. Included on this carnet are brochures to be pass out to the visitors at the trade show. If the brochures are passed out so that they cannot be returned to company A but everything else on […]
Could you share your best practices when providing documentation for customs purposes to international travelers hand carrying company demo equipment (Tools of the trade)? Scenario: We have a group of engineers that travel around the world providing demonstrations to existing and potentially new customers about the benefits of our software products. They normally hand carry […]
My controller was advised by our Puerto Rico office that an upcoming shipment from Thailand will be subject to and additional 6.5% fee (?) This fee is in addition to the applicable duty (3911.90.9010 about 6.5%) I also confirmed this with our Puerto Rico office and they insist that this is a fee applied to […]
Has anyone dealt with the scenario described below? The Mexican Division of a US Importer is considering purchasing product from a related MX Supplier and shipping goods directly to their US Customer. Title transfers from MX Supplier to MX Division/US Importer before the goods leave MX. MX Division/US Importer never takes physical possession of the […]
Given that protests can be filed up to 180 days after liquidation, what is the definition of “timely filing”? Is the definition of “filed” the date it is physically received, or the date it is time-stamped (in the event the two differ)? Say you have an entry that liquidated on 10/29/06. Protest would be due […]
A shipment arrives in the US without a commercial invoice. The US importer creates a proforma invoice on its letterhead stating the overseas shipper/seller and the sold to/consigned to party. An MID is required on the CBP 7501. . The CBP form 7501 Instructions state in part regarding Block 13 MID : “For the purposes […]
