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Last summer Dutycalc did a piece on the initiation of the New York Drawback Offices Paperless Prototype program. The "Paperless Prototype program" commenced on June 18th with 40 or so participants. This program was formulated by Customs to prevent a repetition of the loss of thousands of paper drawback claims which were destroyed on September 11th 2001. The Paperless Prototype program is designed to provide a system where little or no paperwork is exchanged between a claimant and Customs. As some time has passed since the program began, we've checked in with one of our clients who signed up to take part.
According to Tom Ferramosca of American Drawback Services, LLC the process is quite simple. Along with the drawback software which was updated with a single prompt asking whether or not the claim is paperless, Tom finds the process works quite well. Once Customs receives the drawback claim by way of an ABI transmission, there is nothing else for Tom to do other than wait for payment. There is no paper to send in, no expense of mailing or use of an overnight carrier and there is no question of date of receipt or the timeliness of the paper claim being sent in. Tom also finds that the accelerated payments are quicker, because there are no manual reviews. Spot checks will happen, although Tom has not experienced one yet. Customs stated that they will be selecting various claims to review and when this happens, they will need the claimant to send in the paper claim first in order for Customs to select what they want to review and then go on to the supporting documents. All in all, Tom says "it works well and is both cost and time effective".
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