CBP Issues New Sugar Certificate Verification Bulletin With Fifth Category Code, Effective Immediately
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued Quota Bulletin 26-116, Sugar Certificate Verification, through its Cargo Systems Messaging Service on November 12. The bulletin replaces former Quota Bulletin 18-116 and takes effect immediately.
CBP said that, in order to allow greater than 999 Certificates of Quota Eligibility (CQEs) to be provided to an individual country, CBP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service are introducing a fifth category for the sixth digit of the CQE numbering system. The first digit of a certificate number is C for calendar year or F for fiscal year, followed by the last digit of the year and an ISO country code (or AC for a Specialty Sugar Certificate); the sixth digit is the sugar or certificate type code. When a certificate number is 1000 or more, filers enter 1 instead of C in the sixth digit; the C is not eliminated when a serial number is 999 or less.
The bulletin said certificate numbers should be transmitted in ACE with License Permit Certificate code 21, and that ACE enhancements will generate a reject message for correction if a certificate is used for the wrong program. Questions go to CBP's Headquarters Quota and Agriculture Branch.
(Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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