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Customs Brokers Should Expect More Audit Surveys, CBP Official Says
May 2, 2018 |Customs

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Customs brokers should be prepared for an increased number of audit surveys, said Tom Jesukiewicz, CBP field director, regulatory audit, in the Long Beach Field Office, while speaking at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America's annual conference May 1. "There will be a lot more broker surveys this year, I can guarantee you that." Audit surveys aren't actual surveys but are questionnaires that allow CBP to probe business processes related to potential problems. CBP has "ranked" all the customs brokers, and uses that ranking when deciding who to survey, Jesukiewicz said. "The survey is not random, unlike sampling," he said. "Somebody has an issue or pointed something out" and the survey is used to find whether the "supposition is even in the ballpark," he said. If it's pretty clear there's a problem, CBP will do an audit, whereas the audit surveys are used to tell the recipient "you're in an area that's a potential risk" and that "someone flagged you for this." Based on that "walk-through of transactions and the information that we get, we may or may not open an audit," he said.

Quarterly Interest Rates Increased for Customs Duties Underpayments and Refunds
May 1, 2018 |Customs

CBP published the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties, increasing interest rates by one percentage point from the previous quarter. For the quarter that began April 1 and ends June 30, 2018, the interest rates for overpayments will be 4 percent for corporations and 5 percent for non-corporations, and the rate for underpayments will be 5 percent for both corporations and non-corporations. These interest rates are subject to change for the calendar quarter beginning July 1 and ending Sept. 30, 2018, CBP said.

CBP AD and CV Messages as of April 23-27
April 30, 2018 |Customs

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 23-27, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADD CVD Search page.

Domestic Coffee Shipments Still Filed on Paper After ACE Change for Puerto Rico Coffee Duties
April 27, 2018 |Customs

Though a new accounting class code will be implemented April 28 in ACE for duties on coffee imported into Puerto Rico, shipments from the continental U.S. to Puerto Rico, which are still subject to the duties, will continue to be presented as non-Automated Broker Interface entry summaries on Customs Form 7501, CBP said in a CSMS message. The duties, in effect since the 1930s, cover coffee imports into Puerto Rico under Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) heading 0901 and subheadings 2101.11-2101.12, 2202.99.28 and 2202.99.90, and amount to $2.50 per pound on regular coffee and $1.25 per dutiable pound on coffee preparations, CBP says on its website. The issue of filing domestic shipments came up during CBP’s April 26 biweekly ACE call. The new accounting class code is only meant to automate imports of coffee from foreign countries, which have up to now been filed non-ABI, a CBP official said. The automation will allow CBP to pull out and calculate the Puerto Rico coffee duty separate from regular import tariffs, she said.

Topics:Harmonized Tariff Schedule, Customs duty, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)