Thanks, Madam Chair.
Having spent 13 years in international trade consulting, I have a few scenarios to throw out to few of the witnesses. I just want to hear your feedback.
A customs broker, for example, submits a shipment for clearance using ACROSS. After May 17—I think that's the date—does that shipment get automatically rejected by customs? If it does get accepted by customs, on the back end—the accounting side—the importer of record, which is the business, is not set up on CARM. How would the accounting, with the duties and taxes, be sent to the broker? Would it be over the existing system? On CARM, the importer of record is not set up. How does that come together?