Question: CBP issued guidance on August 11 that prohibits the use of a protest to recover duties based on a duty preference program, like GSP or an FTA, but the text of 19 USC 1514 doesn’t necessarily seem to support CBP’s authority to do this. Is CBP’s position legal, regardless of the two NAFTA-specific court […]
Question: I wanted to gauge some of the practices used by the association in regards to filing a PEA with customs. Do most companies outline a specific dollar value required to file a PEA? How do you determine the threshold? Secondly, when do companies file PEA’s not related […]
Question: Can anyone share their experience on how CBP handles post-summary corrections in ACE for those items which would have been reported on a quarterly PEA for a non-ACE entry? It appears that PSC’s should be filed as issues are found, but if there is a change in duty under $20, does CBP […]
Question: From what I understand – entries filed via ACE can no longer be addressed via a QPEA. All post entry adjustments must be made in ACE and they have to be done by the filer (aka broker). Am I correct? In the past I have filed a QPEA each quarter reporting […]
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 […]
