CBP: Input Sought on Registration, Foreign Assembler Information Collections

(World Trade Interactive)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is extending to July 17 the comment period on the proposed extension without change of forms 4455 and 4457, Certificate of Registration. This certificate is used to expedite duty-free or reduced duty entry for foreign-made personal articles that are taken abroad, which are dutiable each time they are brought into the U.S. unless there is acceptable proof of prior possession. It is also used for the registration, examination and supervised lading of commercial shipments of articles exported for repair, alteration, processing, etc., that will subsequently be returned to the U.S. either free of duty or at a reduced rate.

In addition, CBP is seeking comments by August 17 on the proposed extension of the Foreign Assembler’s Declaration (with Endorsement by Importer), which is used to substantiate a claim for duty-free treatment of U.S.-fabricated components sent abroad for assembly and subsequently returned to the U.S.