Customs Prior Disclosure demo
For importers and their counsel: five years of entries narrowed to the ones an error touched, priced entry by entry, drafted for counsel to decide. 1:26
What the demo shows
Scopes an error across past entries and drafts a prior disclosure to CBP for counsel review
Agents narrow five years of line-level entry data to the entries an error touched, such as tooling sent free to a foundry and never added to entered value, give the reason each entry is in or out, and trace the tooling through structured requests to the pattern shop and the foundry. They work out duty, fees and interest entry by entry and draft the disclosure letter with each paragraph tied to the entries that prove it. A challenger reads it as the CBP penalties officer would, re-adds the loss and flags any open CBP request on the same foundry for counsel; counsel decides whether to disclose, the general counsel signs second, the controller approves the tender, and no agent files anything.
Transcript
- Customs Prior Disclosure, for importers: tooling sent free to a Chinese foundry was never declared.
- Agents narrow 24,600 entries to 412.
- Ravi steers: add the 19 entries past five years, uncounted.
- 268 entries, 391 lines: 273,654 dollars left out.
- The challenger catches the agents’ own error, and an open customs request.
- Counsel types her own notes; the agents give no view.
- She notes the older entries too.
- She writes the one sentence only counsel may write, then decides to disclose, in her own words.
- The general counsel signs second. No agent files or pays.
- Interest of 7,526 dollars with a disclosure; a ceiling of 139,407 without.
- Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.
The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.