Automated Message on AD/CVD Filing Errors Has Collected More Than $1M

Matt Zehner, chair of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Working Group for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, told attendees at the June 26 meeting that Project Harvest, a process that sends automated messages to entry filers with possible AD/CVD mistakes in their entry summaries, has been working well. The system sends messages to filers who have either improperly used a company-specific 10-digit AD/CVD case number, or if the entry summary appears to have omitted AD/CVD case information.

"To date, the automated messages have alerted filers and resulted in collecting over $1 million in additional estimated dumping duties and countervailing duties and savings of a great number of labor hours by CBP," Zehner said. He said he thinks it's hundreds of hours of work time.