The purpose of this message is to inform Customs Brokers and importers about the procedureswhich will be used to submit Mexican sugar export licenses and report the Mexican sugar export license numberto CBP.
On December 29, 2014, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) published in the Federal Register the Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar from Mexico; and on December 30, 2014, the DOC provided instructions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in message #4364303. This message is available in the AD/CVD module in ACE and in ADDCVD Search on cbp.gov.
In accordance with the Suspension Agreement and the DOC instructions, effective February 17, 2015, CBP shall require presentation of an Export License as a condition for entry of all consumption entries of sugar from Mexico into the United States. See message #4364303 for the scope of the merchandise covered by the suspension agreement.
1. Procedure to submit an image of the Mexican sugar export license.
Submitting the export license is a condition of entry. The image of the Mexican sugar export license will be submitted to CBP via EMAIL only, not ABI.
The format for documents submitted via EMAIL to DIS for the Mexican sugar license is as follows:
Send email to:
Email Subject Line:CAT=DOC; FILER_CD=A01; ENTRY_NBR=12345678;
ACTION=ADD, DELETE, or REPLACE
Attachments:DOC_01-file name.pdf
NOTE: File name required to begin with ’DOC_01-‘
Documents that can be sent via email:
DOC_01-MX Sugar License
Body: START_DATA
IOR_NBR= Mandatory
LICENSE_NBR=Mandatory
REFERENCE_NBR=Optional (Broker Reference Number or future use)
POC_INFO= Optional (Name and Phone Number)
COMMENT=Optional
RETURN_EMAIL_ADDRESS=Optional (if different than sender)
END_DATA
Sender Signature/Company Stationary: (Optional) Company Name, Address, Phone Number
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NOTE: File Size Limitations:
- The total email size including all attachments may not exceed 10MB.
- For larger documents please breakup into multiple documents and submit multiple emails for the same Entry (i.e. same email subject line).
- Photos should be any open internet format (jpeg, gif, png).
- Documents should be in the format of pdf, doc, xls (we do not accept TIF and TIFF).
Auto-response Sender will receive:
U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) has received your e-mail to the Document Imaging System (DIS) Mailbox for Document Submissions. This auto-reply serves as a confirmation of receipt of your email only. It does not indicate acceptance or correctness of the submitted data or documents. Filers are to keep this e-mail to facilitate audit and tracking of submitted data and documents. Please report any issues to CBP if you do not receive this auto-response for every email submission to the DIS mailbox.
2. Procedure to report the license number and type via ACE and ACS Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
The Mexican sugar export license number and code identifying the license type will be reported in ACS/ABI and ACE/ABI using input record identifier 52.
When inputting entry summary data via ACS/ABI, report the Mexican sugar export license number in the Miscellaneous Permit/License Number data field; ACS will automatically write the certificate type code found on the ACS HTS record, “21” (which is also currently used for the USDA Sugar Certificates for non-Mexican imports), to the line item record in ACS.
When inputting entry summary data via ACE/ABI, report the Mexican sugar export license in the License Number/Certificate Number/Permit Number data field. Report the code “21” in the License/Certificate/Permit Type Code data field.
For detailed instructions on using the ACE and ACS entry summary input record identifier 52, see the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Automated Broker Interface (ABI) CATAIR and the ACS ABI CATAIR.
Technical questions regarding ABI or DIS should be referred to your local ABI client representative. Questions regarding policy for implementing the Mexican sugar export license should be referred to Alexander Amdur, AD/CVD Policy & Programs Branch Chief at .