Import and Export - CBP Form 19 Protest

After you received a formal response via CBP Formrefusal to reliquidate an entry under section 520(c),
29 and you disagree with action taken or proposedTariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1520(c)).
action, you can challenge this by filing CBP Form 19My advice as your custom broker expert is to seek
Protest. This formal response CBP Form 19 is basedall options available and continue gathering all pertain
on 19CFR 174 et seq, states "This part deals withinformation throughout you company. A word of
the administrative review of decisions of the portcaution this is the last opportunity to challenge US
director, including the requirements for the filing ofCustoms and Border Protection without going to
protests against such decisions, amendment ofcourt.
protests, review and accelerated disposition, andIn my experience as a custom broker expert no
provisions dealing with further administrative review".single individual or department has all the information.
As an importer you have the right to file this formalRead carefully U.S. Customs and Border Protection
response (CBP Form 19) within 180 days date ofresponse to really understand what papers were not
liquidation or reliquidation or the date of the decision,included, incomplete or missing with your previous
involving neither a liquidation nor reliquidation, as toresponses or what are they looking for.
which the protest is made. You may protest per 19In my experience as a custom broker in assisting my
CFR 174.11, the following instances:clients to properly and correctly respond to this form,
1. The appraised value of merchandise:must be treated as a company wide team effort and
2. The classification and rate and amount of dutieshave it approved by your legal department. In
3. All charges or exactions of whatever characteraddition, read previously published articles " CBP Form
including the accrual of interest within the jurisdiction28 Request for Information" and "CBP Form 29
of the Secretary of the Treasury;Notice of Action."
4. Exclusion of merchandise from entry or deliveryAs your custom broker expert the more information
under any provision of the Customs laws;you can obtain and understand what CBP is looking
5. The liquidation or reliquidation of an entry, or anyfor, the better the chances to obtain a favorable
modification thereof;decision.
6. The refusal to pay a claim for drawback; and The