Category: Customs & Border Protection

Processes for US Goods Returned

Goods that were manufactured in the United States (US) and returned to the US are eligible for free entry back into the country only if: They have not undergone any advancement in value due to upgrades, repairs, improvements in condition [...]

2018 Annual User Fee Due Jan 26 – Increased Fee Amount!

Customs Brokers:  Your annual user fee is due by January 26, 2018! CBP’s annual user fee is required by CBP for any broker, whether you are a partnership, individual, association or corporation. The fee is due is due at each Customs [...]

CBP Hosting Triennial Status Report and Fee Electronic Submission Webinar

As a follow up to our earlier blog…..Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced earlier today the submission period for the 2018 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report and fee for all licensed customs brokers will open December 15, 2017. CBP is hosting a [...]

Just a Day in the Life of the CBP…

      CBP’s mission statement is “To safeguard America’s borders thereby protecting the public from dangerous people and materials while enhancing the Nation’s global economic competitiveness by enabling legitimate trade and travel”. Did you know that you can check [...]

2018 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report and Fee Submission Begins Dec. 15

Customs Brokers… don’t forget!   The submission period for the 2018 CBP Triennial Status Report and fee for all licensed Customs brokers opens Dec. 15, 2017, and runs through Feb. 28, 2018. The deadline for submitting the 2018 triennial status report [...]

Switch from ACS to ACE Means Changes to Consignee and Importer Queries

The ability to query a consignee in ACS was shut off with the  September 15, 2017 ACE deployment, and CBP is not planning to create this same ability in the new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).  Read on: In CBP’s legacy [...]

What exactly are CBP’s downtime procedures?

A follow up to our earlier blog regarding the downtime experienced on ACE on November 14,  CBP has released the following formal statement.  In it, they discuss the outage, their evaluation of the current downtime procedures, and what steps they are [...]

CBP’s New Announcement on the Transition of Duty Statements to ACE

On Wednesday, November 8th, CBP published a General Notice in the Federal Register announcing the transition of Daily and Preliminary Monthly Statements to ACE. “As of December 9th, 2017, ACE will be the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for generating, transmitting and updating daily and monthly [...]

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