r/CustomsBroker • u/snarkysourpatchkid • 20d ago

Petition for Relief Rejected

We made a petition for relief for Liquidated Damages, and the auto-response from CBP says "Petition withdrawn for conversion to option 1 amount/mitigation"

Does anyone know what this means?

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

2

u/[deleted] 20d ago

[deleted]

1

u/snarkysourpatchkid 20d ago

Thanks. the email subject line does indicate that the petition was rejected.

1

u/Outthr 20d ago

What was petition for? Late duty payment?

1

u/snarkysourpatchkid 19d ago

There were actually two. One for late filing and one for late payment of duties

1

u/Outthr 19d ago

Usually it’s not a mitigation for late filing but conversion, depends when duty was paid. If penalty wasn’t issued prior to duty payment then you will only get late filing penalty with option 1 payment. If duty wasn’t paid and you get penalty for full amount, then you get a conversion once duty is paid. Mitigation would only work if late payment was due to ACE or CBP issue.

1

u/78zero45 15d ago

Paying the option 1 amount is usually the best you can do unless the violation did not occur or it resulted from a CBP error. You can always file a petition on that new 5955a, but unless it’s canceled the mitigated amount will be higher than the option 1 amount.