CBP is delaying the final transition date in ACE for moving customs brokers to national permits by one year until August 2020, it said in an updated deployment schedule posted to its website. The agency is also delaying the scheduled deployment date for certain Generalized System of Preferences fixes by several months, from December 2018 to March 2019, CBP said. The updated schedule no longer includes scheduled deployments for a vessel agent account type, which would have allowed payment of maritime processing fees online, or non-intrusive inspection program related improvements, which were set to modernize the entrance and clearance process in the truck environment using the Multi-Energy Portal imaging system (see 1809240020). Finally, CBP set a concrete deployment date of Feb. 9 for its upcoming ACE Form 5106 input process and unique identifiers for the Centers of Excellence and Expertise. A September version of the schedule had said they’d be deployed in February 2019.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP updated its guidance on how importers of goods excluded from Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum can file entries and receive refunds, it said in a Nov. 8 CSMS message. The message includes information related to the change in policy allowing for product exclusions to apply starting on the day a request was filed with the Department of Commerce (see 1809040035), rather than the day the request was posted for public comment. "To request an administrative refund for previous imports of duty-excluded products granted by DOC, importers may file a [Post Summary Correction (PSC)] and provide the product exclusion number in the Importer Additional Declaration Field," CBP said. "If the entry has already liquidated, importers may protest the liquidation."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP updated its ACE Entry Summary business rules and processes document, with changes to the sections on Post Summary Corrections, informal entries and ACE reports, among other things, it said in a Nov. 2 CSMS message.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP has competed automatic processing of duty refunds for more than 400,000 entry lines flagged for Generalized System of Preferences benefits that were entered during the lapse in the program in early 2018, it said in CSMS message. The agency will now turn to an additional 22,000 lines that were also submitted with special program indicator (SPI) “A” at entry summary, indicating a GSP claim, but that nonetheless require manual processing. “CBP anticipates processing by the [Centers of Excellence and Expertise] to take several months,” it said.
Final regulations on drawback under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act are now being developed to meet the court-ordered Dec. 18 deadline for those rules (see 1810120055), said Emily Simon, a lawyer with CBP who spoke during an Oct. 31 conference call about drawback. CBP received comments on its proposed rules in September (see 1809190005). "We have indeed reviewed those in depth as part of the adjudication process" and CBP and Treasury have been "working extensively to prepare that final rule, which is in process right now," Simon said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: