Dear Friends and Customers,

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has notified importers that as of February 24th, 2018, CBP will no longer support blanket flagging of underlying entries. Importers that currently benefit from blanket flagging should begin working with their customs brokers to ensure entries are flagged in accordance with the importers’ requirements.

Reconciliation allows an importer to identify undeterminable information (other than that affecting admissibility) at the time an entry summary is filed and provide that information at a later date. Blanket flagging was implemented by CBP to allow importers to benefit from reconciliation even if they (or their brokers) inadvertently failed to transmit the reconciliation flag on an underlying entry.

If you are a Reconciliation Participant Importer using “blanket flagging", it is very important that you notify RL Jones CHB before February 24th, 2018. Also, it is important that you please confirm the reconciliation issues that we would need to apply, such as Value, Nafta, 9802, HTS etc. This will allow us to take the necessary measures to flag your entries appropriately.

Please let us know any questions or comments @ reconcalexico@rljones.com

Sincerely,