Question: Unless we announce it, is there any way for another company to look up what we’re getting back from CAPE? Answer 1: Federal agencies are required to disclose any information requested under the FOIA unless it falls under one of nine exemptions which protect interests such as personal privacy, national security, and law enforcement. The […]
Question: If another entity is listed as the Notify Party on my imports BUT my company EIN is listed, then I need to do nothing and the CAPE refunds will come to me? Or even if my EIN, do I need to have the 4811 party removed? Answer 1: You have to make sure the […]
Question: When CAPE opened on 4/20, we filed for every one of our entries that hadn’t liquidated or was within 80 days. Nothing else to do on that category.Before that, we filed a protest on entries liquidated but not yet 180 days. So I think that means we’re good on this category for now? Should we […]
Question: I have a broker telling me they cannot process my PSC and protest requests as CBP WILL NOT ACCEPT them.They say I have to do CAPE (wave 1 or 2 as appropriate).Many of these requests are for MISSED USMCA/SPI claims. Had USMCA been claimed, IEEPA would not have applied.I told them this is WRONG, […]
Question: If money is owed to another USG entity, such as IRS, we know the IEEPA refunds can be offset by that amount.How would we know? If an IEEPA refund is less than expected, how can we tell the specifics of the offset? Answer 1: The same day our 5/13 IEEPA refund was deposited, a […]
Question: I am purchasing Birch and Melanin material from a broker in the U.S. that is importing as DDP from China, Vietnam, and/or Africa. I want to know if I issue a PO to the supplier, will we be liable if they ever get audit or fined by CBP? Should I put a statement on […]
Question: Our CAPE refunds started showing up on ES-022 today, but some entries are exactly twice what they should be. Doing further analysis, it looks like CBP double refunded some entries. How do we address this? Will they bill us for the overage? I assume we’ll have to return it somehow….so, how? Answer 1: Check the […]
Question: I have a pile of entries that I had requested a parcel carrier to correct the entries (mostly missed USMCA claims). They take 90-180 days to do this…par for the course. I am IOR.Fast forward to today and I see that they FILED A CAPE CLAIM for these!!!! This is WRONG. I didn’t authorize […]
Question: If we filed a bunch of protests on entries that liquidated but were still within the 180-day period, do we need to withdraw those protests before next Monday’s CAPE unveiling? Answer 1: ProtestsIf a protest has been submitted solely for IEEPA refund purposes and the entry summary is within 80 days of the liquidation […]
Question: My company is looking to import butter from one of our customer to be tested for a certain ingredient. We have not imported a food item before (nor one of that perishable). I reached out to our broker and they advised that we would need a USDA permit to import dairy products. I have […]
Question: Like a lot of you, we filed such preemptive protests to keep certain entries from final liquidation while the CAPE process was being developed.We filed our Phase 1 filing with everything that was allowed (non-liquidated and liquidated within previous 80 days) at the time. But what do we do now? Everything else of ours is […]
Question: If you got these errors on some of your CAPE lines, what are you doing about them? Waiting? Submitting again on a different application?UNABLE TO CALCULATE DUTYSTATEMENT PROCESSING NOT COMPLETE Answer 1: An April PMS statement does not show a collection status of PAID yetYour Collection status must show PAID not Not Paid or […]
