Question: We have a pending classification protest at HQ. As I was looking through the next set of entries to send in for protest, I realize that there are some other non-revenue classification errors that I would like to clear up. I thought I would file PEAs on the entries that haven’t liquidated, […]
Question: Customs issued a CF28 asking me to provide documents to support a Free TradeAgreement claim for preferential duty treatment. I provided a response toCustoms to the CF28 but Customs felt that the documents I provided to supportthe qualification of the goods under the FTA didn’t prove the qualification. Customs issued a CF29 stating why […]
Question: We are seeking clarification on a question already posed to themembership a while ago… the answers given were not definitive of thepost – entry activity timeline specific to revoked rulings. Here is our scenario: Industry receives ruling on classification, resulting in increase induty. Fast forward 5 years… that ruling is revoked, resulting inreclassification and […]
Question: Do any of the members know if there is any avenue to resubmit a Protest thatwas denied in full for being filed at the wrong port, and is past the 180day time limit. Some of the research I did indicates that I am out of luck.
Question: Would like opinion of the value of choosing accelerated disposition of a filed protest. Getting refunded $ faster sounds good (quite confident in protest, as several smaller $ protests for same criteria have been approved in 120 days, more or less), but in reading 19CFR174.22(d), it seems like requesting acceleration is quite a […]
Question: §174.21(a) states that a protest is to be reviewed and acted upon within two years from the date the protest was filed. What the section does not state is what happens if the two years goes by with no action? Does the protestant win? Lose? §174.21(b), which is for protests relating to exclusions, […]
Question: Is there an advantage to self filing protests vs. having your broker file on your behalf? If your broker files protests, do you review their work prior to submission? If your broker files your protest do you have language in an SOP that defines expectations? If yes, would you be willing to share […]
I also am interested in the procedure to Protest a Notice of Action and if anyone has had any luck at it?
I noticed that the regulations (19 CFR 174.12) and the statute (19 USC 1514) are not in harmony regarding the time window allowed for filing a protest (90 days v. 180 days respectively). Can someone please explain the discrepancy? As I understand, the 180 days applies to entries after 12/18/04 which was the implementation date […]
Question: Several months ago, I filed a 520 (c) claim asking for duty relief on a misclassification, based on clerical error/mistake of fact/other inadvertence (broker error). Customs at the port level denied the request saying that no classification issues could be addressed under 520(c). So I filed a protest on the basis of the fact […]
For those that are experienced in filing protest, We are trying to file a protest for refund claim due to downward year end inter-company payment adjustment for the inter-company purchases/imports. The adjustment is supposed to apply to all the imports during the Fiscal year. However, there’s a dilemma for by the time we have the […]
Question: Consider a circumstance in which SIL’s (resulting from classification changes) were filed close to the date of liquidation, and CBP at the port automatically labels the SIL as a protest and assigns a protest number upon liquidation of the subject entry/entries. (No form 19 was prepared by the IOR or their broker – CBP […]
