No FTZ. No Warehouse. No Way In: CBP Blocks Canadian Goods

FTZ News: Starting 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, a pile of Canadian goods cannot legally touch U.S. soil. Not a zone. Not a bonded shed. Not an in-bond move. Not a consumption entry.

CBP put that in CSMS 70050970 at 1:34 p.m. Monday. The legal hooks are Presidential Proclamations 11061, 11062 and 11063 — alcohol, motor-vehicle-related product, dairy. The White House said Canada kept discriminating against U.S. commerce. Customs is the shop that has to make the trucks stop.

Any ACE entry that still held the listed stuff and had not been released was supposed to be rejected at the same minute. Unconditional reject is the phrase in the bulletin.

If the cargo got here before midnight, it can still be entered. If it was already parked in an FTZ or a warehouse, it can come out. That withdrawal pays 50 percent under Proclamations 11046, 11047 or 11048. The annexes carry the tariff lines.

Headings CBP typed out: 0404, 1702, 1703, 2202 through 2208, and 8711. Whey and dairy fractions. Some sugars. Soft drinks. Beer, wine, vermouth, other ferments, ethanol, spirits. Motorcycles.

Alcohol is pickier. The ban only bites when the shipment also matches a limit in the Alcohol Annex. “Packaged” means bottles, cans, boxes, kegs, the retail jug. Bulk that misses that test is not banned. It still owes the 50 percent from 11046.

The computers flipped with the clock. Bad e214 zone admissions throw 239. Cargo release throws 335. Both read HTS not allowed for country of origin. Entry summary create or update throws 886 — HTS prohibited — the bulletin chops the last word.

Section 338 questions: [email protected]. ACE errors: your client rep or the help desk.

Nobody in this notice is opening a zone. They are telling brokers that after Monday night a slice of Canadian freight cannot be admitted to one. Freight that beat the clock can still walk out. Fifty cents on the dollar./.



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