Question: I was told that due to ACE filing of entries, shipments off by $20.00 or less in duty will not be able to be submitted using a quarterly PEA. I want to be able to report onesie, twosie over and shorts in this manner if still available. Anyone know for sure? I […]
Question: We are trying to determine when we have reached the point of too many PEA’s. We are an importer doing about 2,500 entries annually. We have grown at a very rapid pace and our auditing is playing catch up. Because of that, we are finding a number of errors. We are working toward […]
Question: We are trying to determine when we have reached the point of too many PEA’s. We are an importer doing about 2,500 entries annually. We have grown at a very rapid pace and our auditing is playing catch up. Because of that, we are finding a number of errors. We are working toward […]
Question: Looking for guidance on how to address the reversal of information on a PEA that was submitted and accepted by CBP. It turns out the original entry information was correct and the information provided on the PEA is not correct. Do we need to go back and change the PEAs that were submitted in […]
Question:At the Trade Symposium, I became excited by the fact that in the nearfuture, post entry corrections could be sent through ACE and moreimportantly, post entry details could be obtained through ACE reporting. But I find that our large broker does not currently file entries throughACE. Is this common among the brokerage industry-especially the largerfirms? […]
Question:We have recently received a favorable protest decision on some products we imported resulting in substantial duty recovery. We have been continuously importing under one HTS and updated it to the HTS once we received the protest approval. We were going to stage the remaining entries for protest based after liquidation and within the 180 […]
uestion: I have a set of guidelines (see below) for submitting PEAs to CBP butdon’t know where I got them from so I am not sure if these are a specificcompanies guidelines or CBPs guidelines. Can the ICPA membership direct me to where I can find the PEAGuidelines? Or, can you attache the specific directive […]
Question: I believe that a classification used regularly over the past 5 years isincorrect and the correct one would change the duty rate from 3.4% to 0. Given how subjective classification decisions are it could be argued that aclassification with a 3.1% or 6% duty rate might apply. We feel we canstrongly support the one […]
Question: We have some Italian suppliers who claim that they cannot revise an invoice in the event of a mis-shipment. They are willing to issue a credit for an overage, but will not take product back or amend the original invoice to account for the overage or shortage. This creates issues with amending the entry […]
Question:When dealing with PEA’s for receipt quantity overages, I’m wondering whether or not the members obtain revised invoices from their vendors to show the actual amount received. Is a revised invoice necessary for the PEA, or can the IOR provide a memo as to the additional quantity received to tender the additional duties? We typically […]
Question: I have several Post Entry Amendments (PEA) where the difference in duty isless than $20.00. The liquidation dates are before the current quarterlyreporting is due, but were not caught in time to put on our first quarterreport. I had several of these kind that were submitted as single PEAswithout payment more than 20 days […]
Question: Just wondering if any of the membership can point me in the right directionof the regs or other source regarding the use of the quarterly PEA process.I did not know the quarterly PEA could be used to correct the valuation ofall or many of your entries during the quarter. I thought you would need […]
