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 […]
Question: We protested a bunch of IEEPA entries that were within 180 days post-liquidation.Now we read that CAPE will accept unliquidated and liquidated (so long as no more than 80 days past liquidation). Questions:Do I need to remove any that qualify as “less than 80 days” from the open liquidation protest and, if so, how? I […]
Question: I read that they will be doing batch refunds, not entry level. So I’m assuming that, if I submit a large number of entries on a CAPE filing, it might be very hard to allocate each one across all the entries (because they’re going to include interest).So what are YOU going to do? One […]
Question: If I ship something from my Canada facility to my US one for repair, is this true? The US import is duty free under 9801.00.1012 (provided it complies with the 9801 criteria) The subsequent CA import is duty free under 9992.00.00 (the US is a listed country) These items are NOT qualified for the […]
Question: Will successful Protests eventually be reflected on my ES-003?We’ve successfully Protested a number of entries for various reasons and want to make sure that we have current data as we keep up with our IEEPA spend. Answer 1: Yes, you will note that the Entry Summary Version Number will read 1.01 versus 1 and […]
Question: If we are willing to use Unknown and pay the 200% on all of our Sect 232 aluminum derivative imports, will that cause a red flag with CBP? Answer 1: Honestly, probably not.If you were doing this on the material the smelt and cast was originally intended for – i.e. actual aluminum rod, bar, […]
Question: Looking for a good way of identifying all IEEPA tariff numbers at the 10-digit level.Haven’t seen a good, clean list yet.If I add the HTS Long Description to my ES-003 and then filter that field by “IEEPA”, that should work? Would I be missing any? Answer 1: Generally that will work, but the 10% […]
Question: A major parcel carrier is refusing to accept shipments destined for the USA without the “consingee’s” EIN or SSN. I don’t understand this…can anyone explain? Since when is this a “mandatory” data element for a US Customs entry? PLEASE NOTE that they advised it is mandatory EVEN WHEN the consignee will NOT be the […]
Question: Does anyone have recommendations on websites that show import documentation requirements for Mexico? We sell and export form the US all the time to customers in Mexico. One customer is now insisting we need to provide a Technical Data Sheet for the product. I’m trying to find something online with no luck that shows […]
Question: It’s basic compliance knowledge that duty should not be paid on international freight.But when a supplier lists freight on their invoice – how do other importers handle this? How do you know its actual freight costs and not estimated or some type of average freight calculation?Do you require any back-up that it is actual […]
