PGA specialists
Own agency data for dozens of entries a day and correct fields from evidence
- Each field cited to a supplier document
- Disagreements stopped as broken branches
- Supplier questions sent as fields and files
Features
PGA filing features, from a flagged entry line to the agency’s reply
PGA specialists and licensed brokers build FDA, USDA and CPSC entry data from the supplier’s papers with them. The case shown is one container of serving boards, mugs and children’s plate sets.
demoSample entries throughout: container, importer, supplier, brokerage staff and amounts.
- 01Agency fan
Each entry line fanned out to the agencies that want its data
- Branches drawn from flags and product records. Wood, food-contact and children’s product lines each get the agency branches they need, with the tariff text the flag reader used.
- Each field cited to its document. Spec sheet, harvest record, certificate or lab report sits beside each value, so the specialist checks the page instead of re-keying it.
- A plain-language steer grows the plan. Asking the agents to check an earlier booking for the same ink puts one more step in the run, recorded under the specialist’s name.
- 02Lacey branch
Lacey Act declaration species checked against the harvest record
- Species compared across each document. When the spec sheet and the harvest record name different species, the branch breaks instead of one being picked.
- Valid names that are still wrong caught. ACE accepts any listed species, so the field checker holds the declared species to the harvest record for the lot.
- Wood quantity worked from the goods. Cubic meters come from the board size and count, so the declaration reports the wood in the shipment.
- 03CPSC branch
Children’s product certificate tested against the supplier’s ink change
- Test date set against material changes. A lab report from before a supplier’s change notice no longer tests the product in the box, and the branch says so.
- Test, notice and production on one line. Report, change notice, production dates and the expected new test sit together for the importer to decide.
- Certificate fields cited to their source. Certifier, rules, maker, lab and test date each point to the certificate, the lab scope or the production record.
- 04Agency reviewer
Agency reviewer plays APHIS, FDA and CPSC before anything is transmitted
- What each agency would reject or hold. Species, maker, leach tests, import alerts and certificate scope are raised before ACE or an agency sees them.
- Agent mistakes counted too. The reviewer questions the agents’ own drafts, so a seller filed as maker is corrected to the factory before FDA reads it.
- Points routed to whoever decides. Species goes to the PGA specialist, the certificate to the importer’s safety lead, earlier declarations to the importer and its counsel.
- 05Supplier answers
Supplier answers in fixed fields, each mapped to the branch it changes
- Fields chosen from the reviewer’s points. Each question says which branch it changes, so the supplier answers only what the filing needs.
- Files attached to the fields. The signed harvest record, the corrected spec sheet and the lab’s acknowledgment arrive as files the specialist can open.
- Supplier remarks shown unedited. A supplier’s reassurance changes no field; the specialist and the importer read it exactly as written.
- 06Correction
Species corrected by the PGA specialist with the harvest record open
- Correction tied to its evidence. The dialog names the documents behind the change, and the reason is in the specialist’s own words.
- A correction proposes a standing rule. Asking the supplier whenever spec sheet and harvest record disagree becomes a proposed rule, applied only once a licensed broker approves.
- The broker still opens the branch. The specialist signs the correction, and nothing transmits until the licensed broker has opened it.
- 07Certificate decision
Importer’s certificate decision on the children’s line, held at once
- The importer certifies, the broker files. The product safety lead decides whether to certify or hold, with the reviewer’s point and the lead’s last similar case alongside.
- A hold acts the moment it is signed. Holding the line takes effect at once, while certifying waits for the importer’s second person, who also confirms the hold.
- Hold the line or the whole box. The lead chooses whether the rest of the container moves in bond or everything waits.
- 08Hold what-if
Hold the line or hold the box, priced in storage days and delivery dates
- Two ways to wait, day by day. Storage, release and delivery dates under each path, with the storage rate and move cost editable, so the importer sees what waiting costs.
- What CBP must agree to, marked assumed. The in-bond move and split carry an assumed label, so the importer weighs the saving knowing CBP may refuse it.
- 09Transmit
Licensed broker opens each agency branch before transmitting
- Each opening logged. Every branch shows when the broker opened it, and only opening them all enables the signature.
- Only ready lines go. Lines with solid branches transmit with their Lacey and FDA data; the held line waits in the bonded warehouse.
- The in-bond path spelled out. How the held line waits is listed step by step, with CBP free to refuse, so the broker transmits knowing the fallback.