CBP Prior Disclosure: Mitigating Importer Liability

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CBP Prior Disclosure: Mitigating Importer Liability

MAY 11, 2023 | 10:30 a.m. EDT

Filing prior disclosures to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is a critical tool that importers can deploy when and if violations of import regulations are discovered. Material errors and omissions can occur despite an importer’s best efforts to be compliant.

When used properly, a disclosure may significantly reduce penalty exposure and demonstrate reasonable care. During this webinar, we will review the considerations, risks, benefits, steps, and critical elements needed to file a valid prior disclosure.

The webinar discussion will:

Identify CBP enforcement priorities such as classification, valuation, antidumping/countervailing duties, trade remedies, forced labor, etc.
Review the 19 U.S.C. 1592 statute, levels of culpability, and potential penalty mitigation possibilities
Outline the procedural elements, contents, and formatting of a disclosure letter
Describe considerations such as calculation of amount owing, sampling methodologies, offsetting of overpayments, statute of limitation waivers, and timing constraints

This webinar is ideal for executives, compliance directors and managers, and customs brokers who want to discover what is involved in filing a prior disclosure with CBP.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Anthony Troia, a Senior Compliance Manager of Livingston’s Trade Management Solutions, is actively engaged in a wide variety of U.S. import and export compliance projects on behalf of Livingston International clients. In this role, he serves the TMS vertical clients as an internal compliance advisor and technical expert over a wide spectrum of compliance matters such as USMCA compliance, forced labor, and other trade-related regulatory changes and their impact, as applied to Livingston’s managed service clients.

Tony came to Livingston as a Senior Consultant with a legal background as an attorney specializing in Customs and International Trade matters over the past decade and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of International Trade, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Tony also has 35 years of experience as a licensed U.S. customs broker and is a former president of the Detroit Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association. He remains active in various industry and trade associations and continues to write and publish trade-related articles.

Anthony M. Troia