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CBP Won't Consider Protests Refiled After Aug. 14 for Post-Importation Tariff Preference Claims
June 8, 2017 |Top News

CBP is providing additional guidance on resubmitting protests rejected under the agency’s previous policy against using protests to claim preferences under certain free trade agreements and programs, in a CSMS message (here). “In order to assist CBP in processing protests previously rejected as non-protestable,” importers with rejected protests are “required” to resubmit their protests within 180 days of the February policy memorandum that ended the policy (see 1702220038), “i.e. on or about Aug. 14,” the message said. The policy memo itself had only said importers are “requested” to resubmit within 180 days. "Protests are required to be filed by August 14, 2017," said a CBP spokeswoman. "Any protests filed after that date will not be considered," she said.

Topics:Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
CBP Sets July 8 Deadline for ACE Drawback, Duty Deferral and Reconciliation
June 7, 2017 |Top News

CBP will require ACE filing beginning July 8 for drawback and duty deferral entries and entry summaries, it said in a notice (here). The same July 8 deadline will also apply to reconciliation and recently announced changes to post-summary corrections and period monthly statements (see 1612090021 and 1701060029), it said (here). On that date, CBP’s legacy Automated Commercial System (ACS) will no longer be authorized for drawback, duty deferral and reconciliation filings, the agency said.

Topics:Drawback
Additional ACE Filing Required for Stand-Alone LEDs, Not Articles, FDA Official Says
May 31, 2017 |Top News

Entry filers must transmit data required by the Food and Drug Administration for stand-alone light-emitting diodes, but don’t have to for finished products that incorporate LEDs as indicator lights, FDA Director of Enforcement and Import Operations Doug Stearn said in a letter to the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America dated May 25 (here). The NCBFAA had requested clarification of LED reporting requirements in April. Stearn said FDA recently discovered that some LED products, subject to FDA reporting requirements for radiation-emitting electronic products, were not being transmitted to FDA for review.

Funding Limitations Make Transparency, Prioritization Increasingly Important in BIEC Discussions
May 30, 2017 by Tim Warren|Customs

Funding is a major and now even more complex concern within the Border Interagency Executive Committee discussions, BIEC members said while speaking at the West Coast Trade Symposium on May 24. "This is the real work, I think, now that we've gotten to the other side of the single window," said Cynthia Whittenburg, deputy executive assistant commissioner at CBP’s Office of International Trade. Adding to the already complicated work in the BIEC, the partner government agencies (PGAs) also now need to consider the effects on other parts of the overall system, said Agriculture Department international issues analyst Robert Berczik of the Food Safety and Inspection Service. "Now it's not simply" making process changes, "you've got to really think through, 'OK, well now what's the domino effect?' and 'Where does this impact everything else that's been developed and is in place down the line?'"