The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America learned from CBP that if an entry has an error that CAPE identified, and the entry is outside the post-summary correction filing window of 300 days or 15 days ahead of scheduled liquidation, those entries cannot receive refunds in this phase of CAPE, the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries tool dedicated to International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff refunds.
CBP offered answers to several CAPE-related questions to NCBFAA, which the association then shared with members. CBP said that for entries that need a correction, but are outside that window: "We have captured this scenario on our list of issues to address for future CAPE updates."
For entries within the post-summary correction filing window, a PSC must be filed, and brokers should use H99, data change-other.
NCBFAA asked CBP if it could automatically fix entries that receive the "goods value amount not allowed on IEEPA HTS line" error, and CBP said it couldn't commit to that "at this time."
NCBFAA told CBP that error messages of HTS Relationship/Sequence Mismatch and Unable to Calculate Duty sometimes happen, but when the same data is resubmitted, no error is recorded. The group wrote, "If we find there is no error in the HTS relationship or sequence for a failed entry submission, is the appropriate step to email IEEPARefunds@cbp.dhs.gov?"
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