Public comments submitted to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee's Jan. 14 meeting were supportive of the committee's recommendations calling for CBP to release clearer and additional guidance on how importers can comply with Section 232 tariffs (see 2601120017), particularly when it comes to the valuation of steel and aluminum content.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Jan. 9 denied Nebraska man Byungmin Chae's petition for rehearing en banc in Chae's second case on the results of his April 2018 customs broker license examination after the court dismissed the case on the basis that Chae should have raised his claims in his first case on the test.
The U.S. opened a customs penalty suit on Jan. 8 against importers Skyline International and Skyline Brands, along with their owner Zainulabedin Subhani, alleging that the three defendants undervalued their entries of household merchandise. The government is seeking a penalty totaling over $3.4 million for the defendants' alleged fraud along with a judgment of over $447,000, which represents the duties avoided by the defendants (United States v. Skyline International, CIT # 26-00295).
The U.S. opened a customs penalty suit on Jan. 8 against importers Skyline International and Skyline Brands, along with their owner Zainulabedin Subhani, alleging that the three defendants undervalued their entries of household merchandise. The government is seeking a penalty totaling over $3.4 million for the defendants' alleged fraud along with a judgment of over $447,000, which represents the duties avoided by the defendants (United States v. Skyline International, CIT # 26-00295).
The California Privacy Protection Agency challenged a company’s claim that it didn't engage in data broker activity in the state, and then made it cease that activity through a settlement under the Delete Act, according to a decision released Thursday. In addition, CalPrivacy raised concerns about the sensitive nature of data bought and resold by Datamasters, the company in question. Datamasters' and S&P Global's failures to register as data brokers led to more than $100,000 in fines combined (see 2601080008).
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The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America is urging CBP to "embrace" electronic data submission methods instead of proposing to modify paper-based Form 7501 to allow for situations where there are multiple countries of melt and pour or smelt and cast.
Effective Feb. 6, CBP is transitioning to electronic refunds instead of offering refunds by check. The agency is set to publish an interim final rule in the Federal Register outlining how it will do so, noting that the third party designated on CBP Form 4811 will continue to be valid after the transition goes fully into effect.
Some customs brokers have been seeing an increase in timed-out messages when running reports in the ACE portal, customs brokers told International Trade Today.
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