CBP Now Requiring Data on Original Amounts for Double Flagged Reconciliation Entries
CBP as of Jan. 19 is requiring reporting of original amounts for ACE reconciliation entries that are “double flagged” for both a free-trade agreement and “other,” the agency said in a CSMS message. For such entries, trade users will have to report original amounts of value, duties and taxes and fees in records 56, 57 and 58, respectively, CBP said. CBP also will require two 50-record groupings for the “other” recon if the line was split on the FTA recon, it said.
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Previously, ACE did not have the ability to distinguish the affected value, duty, taxes and fees from the aggregate data of the FTA recon for the portion required on the “other” recon, CBP said. To validate the “other’ recon entry, trade users would, upon CBP request, upload a spreadsheet" in the Document Image System, CBP said.
Now there are three ways trade users can report the data using the new ACE capability, CBP said. Underlying entry summaries that are not double flagged can be grouped together, and won’t require original amounts. Grouped together entry summaries that are double flagged will require original amounts, CBP said. For underlying entry summaries that are mixed between double-flagged and not double-flagged, original amounts will be required for all the underlying entry summaries, it said.
“If original amounts are not reported when required, an automated rejection will occur with the fatal error message, ‘ORIG AMTS MISSING; FTA FOUND,’” CBP said.