Post Entry Amendments

Post Entry Amendments

  • QUARTERLY PEA FOR APPAREL

    Question: I have a question for the apparel importers in ICPA. Recently, I have been given the responsibility of reporting our overages/shortages via a Quarterly PEA.  As an importer of items in Chapters 50 through 65, it appears that we are required to submit Individual PEAs when the EV of the merchandise is $3k or […]

  • UNDERPAID/OVERPAID DUTIES

    We are currently reviewing our receipted quantity process – (compared to the entered quantity–quota is not an issue).    We’ve done a quarterly report and if netting were allowed, we’ve actually overpaid CBP by about $1000. in duties.    Does anyone have a CBP approved process where netting is allowed for quantity discrepancies?     […]

  • Rejected PEA

    Question: I just had Customs reject a PEA because I didn’t get additionaldocuments they requested back to them in time. I don’t really care aboutsmall amount of the refund, I am mostly concerned about reporting thecorrect value for Customs. In this case, we realized an assist was overdeclared and the PEA was to declare the […]

  • CA POST ENTRY AMENDMENTS FOR NRI

    Question: We are a U. S. based company, importing into Canada under our NRI #.At the time of shipment into Canada we do not always know if the itemsare NAFTA qualified, or have in hand all component certificates for RVC.I understand that we can adjust an individual entry up to 12 months fromdate of entry, […]

  • IMPORTER/EXPORTER NAME CHANGE

    Question: We recently acquired a US based company.  Example:The name was changed effective Nov. 1, 2009.  The importer / tax IDnumber stayed the same.  On the import side – 3 shipments were cleared under the old entity nameafter the Nov. 1 date.  On the export side – 2 shipments were reported via AES under the […]

  • PEA FOR WRONG MID

    Question: Our broker inadvertently stated an incorrect MID code for one our of recentfootwear (ch. 64) entries.  The incorrect MID code has the same C/O (CN) asthe correct vendor’s MID.  I’ve reviewed the FR on individual/quarterly PEAguidelines on what constitutes a non-revenue related error that meet Censuslevels, but am not finding any mention of MID […]

  • FILING PEA POST LIQUIDATION

    Question: If an issue is discovered after liquidation of an entry that would result inmore than $20.00 additional duties/fees owed to Customs, will Customs stillaccept an individual PEA?  This is not really a protestable issue since we arenot disagreeing with a Customs decision or ruling, nor are we seeking arefund.  This is also not something […]

  • REVOKED RULINGS AND PEA’S

    Question: If a classification ruling is revoked today, could we file PEAs or protest entries previously filed using the HTS of the revoked ruling?  These rulings were not issued to our company, we just based our classification on the information found in CROSS. Thank you.