SAN ANTONIO -- CBP recently provided additional details for phase one of CAPE, the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries functionality in ACE, deploying International Emergency Economic Powers Act refunds on April 20.
Importers of record and brokers will be able to access the CAPE tab through their ACE account. To file a declaration, they will upload a Comma-Separated Values file listing up to 9,999 entry numbers for which IEEPA duties have been paid. No entry-related information is needed.
A separate CAPE declaration can be submitted for additional entry numbers. The template file will be available through the upload button in the CAPE tab. The declaration, and entry summaries, listed will be validated by ACE before they're accepted. If the submission fails any part of the file validation series, ACE will reject the CAPE declaration and filers can see the specific errors.
If an entry summary fails an entry-specific validation, ACE will remove it from the CAPE declaration but process the remaining entry summaries. If the filer corrects the errors, it may resubmit the entry summary on a separate declaration. The accepted declarations will be assigned a CAPE number.
Mass processing will be performed on all entry summaries accepted on the CAPE Declaration, and all applicable IEEPA Chapter 99 numbers will be removed at the entry summary level. The duties will be recalculated and interest will be calculated on the refunds.
Sandra Langford-Coty, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America's Customs Committee chair, said she thinks interest will stop being collected on rejected entries, during a session at the NCBFAA annual conference this week.
Unliquidated entry summaries will be sent to liquidate 45 days from the CAPE Declaration acceptance date, except for those suspended, extended or under review, which will maintain their liquidation status. Warehouse and warehouse withdrawal entry summaries won't be set to liquidate 45 days from the acceptance date, but the liquidation process for warehouse entries will continue to be performed as normal after all withdrawals have been made, and the warehouse entry is ready for liquidation.
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