Duty drawback for auto parts and aftermarket importers

Exported outside Canada and Mexico. File a notice of intent at least 5 working days before export, or hold a waiver of prior notice. Past exports made without one need a one-time retroactive approval.^{⁠[1]⁠[18]}

Exported to Canada or Mexico. USMCA usually caps drawback at the lesser of the U.S. duty and the duty paid there. Testing, relabeling or repacking doesn't change their condition.^{⁠[1]⁠[15]} They must be the parts you imported: substitution doesn't count for these exports, except for goods the statute lists.^⁠[1]

Built into goods you export. You need a manufacturing ruling, a bill of materials and production records. You can file before the ruling arrives, but payment waits for it.^⁠[16]

Defective or returned parts. Notice is due at least 5 working days before export and 7 before destruction.^{⁠[1]⁠[17]}

Direct identification traces each exported part number back to its import entry line.

Substitution lets one part stand in for another in the same 8-digit tariff subheading. Many parts sit in lines that begin with "Other." Those need the same 10-digit number, and if that line also begins with "Other," substitution isn't allowed. Then match by part number instead.^⁠[1] GAO reported CBP's estimate that motor vehicle parts would be among the products this limit affects most.^⁠[19]

Returned parts can be matched to an import from within 1 year before the export or destruction, with the same 8-digit tariff number and the same part number.^{⁠[1]⁠[17]} That substitution isn't allowed for returns exported to Canada or Mexico.^⁠[15]

The agent matches each export to its import by part number and tariff number, and shows the match on every claim line.

$300,000 × 27.5% = $82,500; × 99% = $81,675.

The parts went outside USMCA, so no lesser-of cap applies. Because they are outside Section 232, both the ordinary and the Section 301 duty can come back. Fees follow the published lookback schedule and apply to principal only.^⁠[20] Merchandise processing fees and harbor maintenance tax, which drawback can also return, are left out to keep the arithmetic plain.

A bill of lading, air waybill, freight waybill, Canadian customs manifest or cargo manifest; official postal records for mail; or records from an electronic export system CBP has approved.

Copies and records kept in the normal course of business are accepted. The proof must show the date and fact of export and the identity of the exporter.^{⁠[1]⁠[22]} Exports to Canada usually have no EEI filing, so the shipping record is your proof.^⁠[23]

Shipment manifests are public; your prices are not.^⁠[25]

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