Duty Drawback

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Duty Drawback in the United States

Duty drawback

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Duty drawback and the International Trade Law

Drawback is the refund, reduction or waiver in whole or in part of customs duties assessed or collected upon importation of an article or materials which are subsequently exported.

Under the NAFTA, the amount of customs duties that will be refunded, reduced or waived is the lesser of the total amount of customs duties paid or owed on the goods or materials when imported into a NAFTA country and the total amount of customs duties paid or owed on the finished good in the NAFTA country to which it is exported.

No NAFTA country, on condition of export, will refund, reduce or waive the following: antidumping or countervailing duties, premiums offered or collected pursuant to any tendering system with respect to the administration of quantitative import restrictions, tariff rate quotas or trade preference levels, or a fee pursuant to Section 22 of the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Act. Moreover, same condition substitution drawback was eliminated effective January 1, 1994.

Main rules:

  • Article 303 : Restriction on Drawback and Duty Referral Programs
  • Annex 303.6 : Goods Not Subject to Article 303
  • Annex 303.7 : Effective Dates for the Application of Article 303
  • Annex 303.8 : Exception to Article 303(8) for Certain Color Cathode-Ray Television Picture Tubes

For information about about drawback procedures in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), please see below.

Drawback in ACE

In support of trade modernization and the White House Executive Order calling for establishment of the Single Window, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is preparing to roll out new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) capabilities to complete the delivery of core trade processing in ACE. The transition date for this deployment is still being finalized. CBP will deploy drawback in ACE, at which time all Automated Broker Interface (ABI) drawback filings must be filed in ACE and will no longer be accepted in the Automated Commercial System (ACS).

It is important to note that there will be a limit on the number of records per claim. Specifically, there will be a limit of 5,000 import, manufacturing, and export or destroyed records per drawback claim.

Drawback and Duty Deferral Programs

The NAFTA provisions on drawback and duty deferral applies to goods imported into Canada or the United States and subsequently exported to the other country (i.e., Canada or the United States) on or after January 1, 1996. The NAFTA provisions on drawback and duty deferral will apply to goods imported into Canada or the United States and subsequently exported to Mexico, or imported into Mexico and subsequently exported to Canada or the United States, on or after January 1, 2001. Thus, transactions involving either the importation of goods into Mexico or the exportation of goods to Mexico will not come under the drawback and duty deferral provisions of the NAFTA until January 1, 2001. For information on Duty Deferral Programs (Inward Processing), please click here.

Resources

See Also

Further Reading

  • Duty drawback entry in the Dictionary of International Trade Law (Raj Bhala)
  • Duty drawback entry in the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (Thomas Carson; Mary Bonk)
  • Duty drawback entry in the Dictionary of International Trade
  • Duty drawback entry in the Dictionary of International Trade: Handbook of the Global Trade Community (Edward G. Hinkelman)

Related Entries:

  1. Certificate of Origin
  2. Customs Law Procedures
  3. Duty-free
  4. Duty-saving Options
  5. Rules of Origin
  6. North American Free Trade Agreement
  7. Delivery
  8. Preferential Treatment
  9. Code of Federal Regulations
  10. Federal Register
  11. Duty of Care
  12. Due Process Of Law
  13. Invoices
  14. Motor Vehicles
  15. Record Keeping
  16. Goods
  17. Limitations
  18. Liquidated Damages
  19. Liquidation
  20. Merchandise
  21. Mitigation
  22. Reasonable Care
  23. Value
  24. Exclusions
  25. Search And Seizure
  26. African Growth and Opportunity Act
  27. Andean Trade Preference Act
  28. ATA Carnet
  29. Bonded Warehouses
  30. Caribbean Basin
  31. Civil Enforcement
  32. Commercial Environment
  33. Commingling
  34. Compliance Publications
  35. Compliant Companies
  36. Country of Origin
  37. Customs Administration
  38. Customs Clearance
  39. Customs Definition
  40. Customs Law
  41. Customs Law Definition
  42. Customs Law Rules
  43. Customs Meaning
  44. Customs Regulations
  45. Customs Trade Regulations
  46. Duty Laws
  47. Entry of Goods
  48. Entry Program
  49. Free Trade Agreements
  50. Free Trade Area
  51. Generalized System of Preferences
  52. Harbor Maintenance Taxes
  53. Import Quotas
  54. Import Restrictions
  55. Import Rulings
  56. Importer Self-assessment
  57. Informed Compliance
  58. Invoicing
  59. Lumber
  60. Mail Entries
  61. Port Safety
  62. Prior Disclosure
  63. Tariff Schedule
  64. Temporary Importation under Bond
  65. Transaction Value
  66. Types of Invoices
  67. Unentered Goods
  68. Unfair Trade Remedies
  69. Dual System
  70. Dutch Colonial Immigration

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