Monday, December 21, 2009

Avoid U.S. Customs ISF Penalties with Compliance-Trek!

Freightgate, a all-around industry baton in Web 2.0 technology accumulation alternation software solutions, today appear that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has appear Penalty Mitigation Guidelines for ISF 10+2 Importer Security Filing Program.

On July 17, 2009, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) appear in its CBP Bulletin acknowledgment guidelines for the Importer Security Filing ISF 10+2 program. According to the guidelines, there are potentially three situations for which asleep amercement may be issued:

- Inaccurate acquiescence of an ISF: CBP will affair a asleep amercement case in the aggregate of $5,000.
- Late acquiescence of an ISF: CBP will affair a asleep amercement case in the aggregate of $5,000.
- Failure to abjure an ISF: CBP will affair a asleep amercement case in the aggregate of $5,000.

No asleep amercement will be adjourned for the abortion to book an ISF if no band is in place. CBP will abstain the absolution or alteration of appurtenances for which no ISF has been filed until all ISF advice is received. CBP will aswell assets the appropriate to absolute the admittance to unlade appurtenances for which no ISF has been filed and, if unladen, those appurtenances may be accountable to seizure.

In addition, a account of mitigating and aggravating factors has been appear in the guidelines. Mitigating factors include:
- Evidence of advance in implementing ISF acquiescence during the phase-in period.
- A baby amount of violations compared to the amount of ISFs.
- C-TPAT Tier 3 and Tier 2 importers will accept application of up to 50% acknowledgment for violations.
- The importer has approved that alleviative accomplishments accept been taken to abode the affairs surrounding the violation.
- Late ISF filings due to affairs above the importer's control.
- Receiving incorrect advice from addition affair or accumulation chain, if this advice is begin to be incorrect at a date after than accustomed beneath the alteration timeline.

Aggravating factors include:
- Lack of cooperation with CBP.
- Smuggling attempts and added accomplishments adverse to law in affiliation with the shipment.
- Multiple errors on one ISF.
- A ascent absurdity amount affected over all ISFs.

The acknowledgment guidelines become able July 17, 2009.

Freightgate’s Compliance-Trek! simplifies acquiescence with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection 10+2 Importer Security Filing ISF requirements. Re-usable templates annihilate bombastic abstracts access by autumn parties, items, HTSUS numbers and all added pertinent information. At the bang of a button, the appropriate abstracts elements are transmitted anon to U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP.

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Test-Drive Compliance-Trek! today. Contact Freightgate on the web at www.freightgate.com , email sales@freightgate.com or alarm (714) 799-2833.

About Freightgate
Based in Huntington Beach, California, the Freightgate aggregation has been developing Internet solutions for the bales and acumen back 1994, such as its industry-leading PLTX(tm) Platform, with I-Trek!(R) Internet Supply Chain Collaboration & Visibility; GTM-Trek!(tm) for RFQ and breakable management; Tariff-Trek!(tm) for account arrangement and adduce management; FMC-Trek!(tm) for accomplishing FMC publishing requirements; Pay-Trek!(tm) for automated bales bill analysis and payment; WISA(tm) avant-garde What-If-Scenario Analysis tool; I-Sail!(tm) alternate online sailing schedule; Compliance-Trek!(tm) for acquiescence administration with FMC and U.S. Customs. Freightgate's chump portfolio contains companies such as Alliance International, APL Logistics, CaroTrans, GeoLogistics (now Agility), Menlo Worldwide Logistics, Nippon Express, Panalpina, Primary Freight, Top Ocean, Dow Corning, Recylum, Screlec and Tembec. Freightgate is ISO 9001:2000 certified.

Contact:
Mr. Martin Hubert - President
Freightgate Inc.
15061 Springdale St, Ste 111
Huntington Beach, Ca 92649
Website: www.freightgate.com
Phone: (714) 799-2833

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