CBP Moves Drawback Operations from Ports to Centers

The Centers of Excellence and Expertise, rather than the ports of entry, will be home to the drawback program and specialists, CBP said Aug. 13. Effective Aug. 15, “the four drawback offices will be managed out of five Centers and each Center will manage two industries,” the agency said. The change won't result in changes “to the processing of claims, transmission of claims, and submission of ruling and privilege application requests,” it said. CBP previously said it was looking to make the change by the end of September (see 2105050011).