§ 111.61 - Decision on preliminary proceedings.

§ 111.61 Decision on preliminary proceedings.

Cross Reference

Link to an amendment published at 87 FR 63319, Oct. 18, 2022.

The port director The processing Center will prepare a summary of any oral presentations made by the broker or his the broker's attorney and forward it to the Assistant Commissioner appropriate Executive Director, Office of Trade, together with a copy of each paper filed by the broker. The port director processing Center will also give to the Assistant Commissioner his appropriate Executive Director, Office of Trade, a recommendation on action to be taken as a result of the preliminary proceedings. If the Assistant Commissioner appropriate Executive Director, Office of Trade, determines that the broker has satisfactorily responded to the proposed charges and that further proceedings are not warranted, he or she will so inform the port director processing Center, who will notify the broker. If no response is filed by the broker or if the Assistant Commissioner appropriate Executive Director, Office of Trade, determines that the broker has not satisfactorily responded to all of the proposed charges, he or she will advise the port director processing Center of that fact and instruct him the processing Center to prepare, sign, and serve a notice of charges and the statement of charges. If one or more of the charges in the proposed statement of charges was satisfactorily answered by the broker in the preliminary proceedings, the Assistant Commissioner appropriate Executive Director, Office of Trade, will instruct the port director processing Center to omit those charges from the statement of charges.

[CBP Dec. 22-21, 87 FR 63319, Oct. 18, 2022]