The majority of our imports are entered through one main port. This port has been enforcing the requirement for manufacturer affidavits (MA) for all 9801 claims. We are not the manufacturer. Therefore, our company is paying duty at time of entry where applicable. We then submit refund requests for 9801 claims once we receive the […]
Here’s an email exchange between my broker and me: Our Compliance Manager, xxxx, has been told on numerous occasions that customs does not want us to file any corrections were there is no change in duty. He has been instructed by Customs that if the change is less than $20.00 or no change in duty […]
I am curious to find out how other people manage quantity discrepancies. A container may contain 200,000+ units for us and after receipt; we may find that it was over/under 100 units for example (obviously units are relatively low value). Unless there is a very large discrepancy, we usually don’t charge back our vendor (or […]
What percentage of overage and shortage that mporters typically report to customs tendering additional duties etc. Has anyone been through a customs audit where this has been addressed?
A vendor of ours in Germany erroneously shipped us product intended for another US customer of theirs. Of course the vendor would like us to forward the product. I am concerned about verifying such an entry in an audit. I would appreciate it if the group could share how they have handled situations like this.
Hi everyone. In the spirit of Customs Compliance and demonstration of reasonable care, one of the items we are monitoring closely when performing a post-entry audit of each file is the quantity. In other words, does the ordered quantity matched what shipped? Does this match the entered quantity at the time of the entry and […]
Has anyone out there been reprimanded for filing too many SILs? If so, how many were you filing? What happened?
Thanks to the group for recent responses on my question about handling post entry amendments under individual PEA’s and quarterly PEA’s. What about when the entry has already liquidated? Is it different??
Does anyone have some guidelines or internal procedures which they are willing to share on how to report shortages, overages, or damages back to Customs on an import. Is the threshold based on duty revenue or on value of merchandise or both? For example, if I find there are an additional $10,000 worth of parts […]
Does anyone in the group have a handy written explanation of the various ways to handle post entry amendments?? I am looking for something a bit easier to understand than the actual regulations.
I have a question regarding prior disclosures. About a month ago, we received a CF28 requesting a NAFTA certificate for a Canadian import. We didn’t have one, and in working with our broker discovered that for the past several years, they had been mistakenly been making NAFTA claims (also not following our classification database) affecting […]
I would like to know if anyone files a post entry amendment quarterly to resolve issues on various import entries, like Fedex misclassifications or how they handle these changes to their entries when they are sometimes numerous. I know about SIL and Prior disclosures, but doing these too often can lead to being on Customs […]
