CBP LA Advises Trade on Reimbursable Overtime Services

CBP's Los Angeles field office will offer reimbursable overtime for agriculture services as of July 1, it said in a public bulletin. The bulletin includes a list of established business hours for the ports involved and contact information for agriculture reimbursable overtime requests. The bulletin notes that "if a commercial vessel requiring agriculture clearance arrives outside of hours of core agriculture coverage at the port, reimbursable overtime will be charged for the agriculture clearance." Further, "if a commercial vessel requiring an agriculture clearance arrives toward the end of core hours and the agriculture clearance extends beyond the hours of core agriculture hours at the port, then reimbursable overtime will be charged for the portion of the clearance outside of the core hours," it said.