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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.
An importer bears the burden of providing a "complete paper trail" if that importer wants to show that the transactions of its middleman vendors and corresponding factory sellers were bona fide sales upon which transaction value may be based, CBP's Apparel, Footwear and Textiles Center said in a recent ruling, HQ H337689.
CBP released a fact sheet to aid importers in transitioning to electronic refunds via automated clearing house (ACH) beginning Feb. 6, as mandated in a Jan. 2 CBP interim final rule (see 2512310016), it said in a CSMS message that same day. The agency said it “recently improved” the ACH refund sign-up process by adding an automated ACH refund authorization tool in the ACE Portal, as well as by automating the ACE Portal’s importer account application, “which is necessary to access the new ACH Refund Authorization tool.”
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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
On Jan. 2, ACE Portal trade account owners will have the ability to add notify parties, known as "Special Address Notification (CBP 4811) notify parties," under the Notify Parties tab within the Importer sub-account view, according to a Dec. 23 cargo systems message.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: