CSMS Message: 04-000531

Title:HTS 9808.00.3000 DEFENSE CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT AREA
Date:2004-03-18
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TO: ALL BROKERS AND IMPORTERS

FROM: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, TRADE COMPLIANCE AND FACILITATION
OFFICE OF FIELD OPERATIONS

SUBJECT: HTS 9808.00.3000 DEFENSE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT AREA
OPERATION (DCMAO)

U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION (CBP) WAS INFORMED THAT THE CRITERIA
FOR HTS 9808.00.3000 EMERGENCY WAR MATERIAL WAS ALLOWED TO LAPSE.
BECAUSE OF THE LAPSE PERIOD FROM DECEMBER 1, 2003, UNTIL JANUARY 13,
2004, SEVERAL ENTRY SUMMARIES WERE BYPASSED OR TRANSMITTED PAPERLESS.

THE FIELD HAS BEEN INFORMED NOT TO SEND OUT INFORMED COMPLIANCE LETTERS
TO THE BROKERS OR IMPORTERS DURING THIS TIME PERIOD.

CBP WILL BE REQUESTING PAPER DOCUMENTS FOR ALL THE ENTRY SUMMARIES THAT
WERE PROCESSED AS PAPERLESS AS THEY COME ACROSS THEM. ANY ASSISTANCE
FROM THE TRADE ON EXPEDITING THIS PROCESS WOULD BE TRULY APPRECIATED.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING THIS ISSUE, PLEASE CONTACT
DON YANDO, CHIEF, ENTRY AND DRAWBACK MANAGEMENT, AT (202) 927-1082
OR DEBBIE SCOTT, FIELD OPERATION SPECIALIST, AT (202) 927-1962.

/S/

ELIZABETH G. DURANT