CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP's goal "is, and has always been," to publish a regulatory proposal for drawback regulations under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, the Justice Department said in a June 12 filing with the Court of International Trade. The filing was part of a lawsuit brought against CBP that said the government is improperly not processing requests for accelerated payment on TFTEA drawback claims (see 1803260048). Tobacos de Wilson, Tobacco Rag Processors, Brown-USA, Nippon America, Skate One Corporation, Alliance International, C.J. Holt and Customs Advisory Services filed the suit in late March.
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
BALTIMORE -- There has been a long wait for details on how drawback will work under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, but Dave Corn, vice president of Comstock and Theakston, said things are going to be moving in the next month. The Office of Management and Budget is required to send the proposed rule back to CBP by July 5, and Corn said he expects CBP to release a proposed rule notification a week or two after OMB acts. A lawsuit on whether CBP's action to change accelerated payment practices was outside its authority for interim guidance should also be resolved within a few weeks, he said while speaking at the American Association of Exporters and Importers annual conference on June 8.
It's not clear that the president's authorities under Section 232 allow for the elimination of drawback, law firm Neville Peterson said in a blog post. President Donald Trump said in April that drawback would not be allowed for entries subject to the Section 232 tariffs (see 1804300064). "While this is a close question, the President’s power under Section 232 is limited to 'adjust[ing] imports,'” the law firm said. "It seems unlikely that the President can take action respecting exports, the activity which generally triggers claims for duty drawback."
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CBP is looking into the possibility that a final rule for drawback won't be in effect by the statutorily required date, said Randy Mitchell, director of CBP’s Commercial Operations, Revenue and Entry Division, during a May 24 webinar hosted by Integration Point. "Everything concerning the [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking] and the effective final rule is very tentative," he said. "We know that we have a congressional mandate of February 2019 to implement the drawback, the new law for drawback. But what happens if we don't have that effective final rule there, and we don't know right now and we've been discussing that with our lawyers."
CBP provided further details on how importers of goods excluded from Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum can file entries and receive refunds, in a May 21 CSMS message. "Importers and filers importing products granted an exclusion should submit the product exclusion number based on the last six digits of the product exclusion docket number," CBP said. Filers should not "submit the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number for the Section 232 duties when the product exclusion number is submitted," the agency said.