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Job 04 · Entry corrections

// Freight forwarding · After the entry

Revised invoices compared with the entry already filed, for your licensed broker to decide what follows.

One job, tested on copies of 20 to 30 entries where a corrected invoice reached your brokerage after filing. AI sets the revised invoice beside the entry summary that went to CBP and lists every change in value, quantity, origin or classification, with the line and page behind it and the dates that still matter. Your licensed broker decides between a post summary correction, a prior disclosure or no action.

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Corrected entries
20 to 30
ACE access
None
Who decides the route
Your licensed broker

// The one job

A revised invoice arrives. A list of changes goes to your broker.

Weeks after release, the importer forwards a new invoice: the supplier rebilled at another price, a short shipment was credited, one line turned out to come from a different factory, or the final invoice replaced the pro forma the entry was filed on. Today someone pulls the entry summary from your files, reads the new paper against it line by line, works out what moved and whether the entry is still open, and puts the file on a licensed broker's desk.

In the proof of concept, AI does that comparison. It matches each revised line to the line that was filed, lists every difference with the old and new values side by side, notes what each one touches, whether value, quantity, origin, HTS number or a field the entry fixes at filing, and shows the entry date, the scheduled liquidation date when you send it, and the days left. Nothing is filed, corrected, disclosed or sent.

Revised invoiceRevised invoice, filed entry
Invoice date
Unit price
Quantity
Origin
LineWasNow
Illustration, not a real invoice
Compared
line by line
Change listFor your licensed broker
Value change
Quantity change
Origin or HTS change
Days to liquidation
LineChangeSource page
Illustration, not a real entry

// What makes corrections hard

One changed line can lead three different ways.

What the importer promised at filing. The declaration on CBP Form 7501 closes with the importer's promise to immediately furnish any information showing a different statement of facts, and 19 U.S.C. 1485 puts the same duty in the declaration itself: to produce at once any invoice, letter or document showing that the prices or statements filed are not true or correct. Some revised invoices were expected all along. Block 18 of the form lists documents missing at filing, two codes at most, with 01 for the commercial invoice and 16 for a corrected commercial invoice, and an entry filed on a pro forma under 19 CFR 141.91 carries a bond to produce the required invoice within 120 days of the entry summary, or 50 days when it is needed for statistics. So the change list opens by saying which kind of invoice this is: one the entry was waiting for, or one nobody expected.

Not every price change is a value change. Under 19 CFR 152.103, a rebate or other cut in the price that is made or takes effect between buyer and seller after the date of importation is disregarded in transaction value, so when a price cut was agreed matters as much as its size. A price that went up, a commission or royalty that surfaced later, and a credit for goods that never shipped each touch the entry in a different way. The change list puts the invoice date, the importation date and the supplier's stated reason beside every price difference. Whether any of it changes the entered value is your broker's call.

What a post summary correction can and cannot change. CBP's page on post summary corrections, last updated August 6, 2026, calls a PSC the only way to correct an entry summary electronically before liquidation, treats it as a complete replacement of the original, and processes it only once it is fully paid. It goes in within 300 days of the date of entry and up to 15 days before scheduled liquidation, whichever comes first, unless liquidation was extended, and ACE rejects one sent outside that window; the entry must also be accepted, paid and not under CBP review. Some data a PSC never changes: the importer of record, which takes a CBP Form 3347 first, the port and date of entry, the reconciliation issue code, and the trade agreement indicator for programs such as USMCA. The only entry type changes allowed are 01 to 03 and back, and each PSC carries up to five reason codes with a description of each change. The change list marks every difference that lands on a fixed field.

After liquidation, and the line the law draws. Once an entry liquidates, CBP's page leaves two ways to correct it, a prior disclosure or a protest, which 19 CFR 174.12 allows within 180 days for entries made since late 2004. Unless liquidation is extended or suspended, an entry still open a year after the date of entry liquidates by operation of law at the value and rate the importer asserted, under 19 CFR 159.11. A good that qualified for USMCA treatment but entered without the claim has its own path, a post-importation claim within one year of importation under 19 CFR 182.31, filed with a certification of origin. Behind all of it is 19 U.S.C. 1592, which bars entering goods through a material false statement or a material omission, by fraud, gross negligence or negligence, whether or not any duty was lost. Clerical errors and mistakes of fact are not violations unless they form a pattern of negligent conduct, and an electronic system repeating one clerical error without intent is not a pattern. Which side of that line a change falls on is for your broker and the importer's counsel.

What a prior disclosure must say, and what your reviewer watches. Under 19 CFR 162.74, a prior disclosure names the class or kind of merchandise, identifies the entries by number or by port and approximate dates, sets out the material false statements, omissions or acts and how and when they happened, and gives the true information, with anything still unknown due within 30 days; an oral one is confirmed in writing within 10 days. Once a formal investigation has begun, the rule presumes the importer knew of it if CBP told it about the violation, a special agent asked about it or requested records, a prepenalty notice went out, or the goods were seized, and it lets a disclosure covering many entries rest on statistical sampling that meets CBP's criteria. So the change list groups differences that repeat and names every other entry in your sample with the same supplier, part or factory. Your reviewer, the licensed broker who knows these importers best, looks hardest for an origin change hidden in a new factory address, a price change dated close to arrival, a quantity credit the packing list doesn't explain, and an entry near its last day for a PSC.

// What you send

Both invoices, the filed entry, and what your broker did

Copies only
No ACE or ABI login
01

20 to 30 entries that were revised

Entries from the past two years where a new invoice arrived after filing. Include one your broker corrected by PSC, one where the broker chose no action, one past liquidation and one filed on a pro forma.

02

Both invoices and the importer's note

The invoice the entry was filed on, the revised invoice, any credit or debit note, and the email in which the importer explained the change, all as they arrived.

03

The entry and what followed

Each entry summary as filed, any PSC that came after it, and your broker's note on the reason. That is the answer key: which changes your broker caught and how each was handled.

04

The NDA, then copies with gaps

No entry is copied until the NDA is signed. Blank out importer numbers, bond and payment details, and leave out any advice the importer got from its lawyers. We never log in to ACE or the software you file through.

// Before it starts

Written down before any entry is copied

The owner puts four decisions on paper before the first revised invoice leaves your office.

Before the proof of conceptOwner's decisions
Reviewer
Named by the owner. A licensed customs broker, usually the one who signs off your corrections.
Success criteria
Which changes the list must catch, and which misses count against it
Sample
Picked by your reviewer from revised entries, open and liquidated
Price
A range for running the job live

// How the test is judged

Your broker's findings against the change list

Change by change
on entries already corrected
On the same 20 to 30 entriesWhat your broker foundThe AI change list
Revised lines matched to the lines filedFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Price changes, with the invoice and importation datesFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Quantity changes and the unit they are inFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Changes in origin, manufacturer or HTS numberFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Changes that land on fields a PSC cannot changeFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Entry date, liquidation date and time leftFilled in on your entriesFilled in on your entries
Nothing has been scored. The table fills only when the test runs on entries your brokers already corrected.Your licensed broker judges every list, and that judgment decides.

// After a yes

About 30 days on new revisions

If your reviewer says yes, revised invoices that arrive over the next 30 days or so go through the same job, with a change list ready when the importer's email lands.

Each list waits for a licensed broker, who decides whether a change calls for a post summary correction, a prior disclosure, a protest or nothing, and who prepares and files anything bound for CBP through your own system. The AI never files a correction or a disclosure, never decides whether a change must be reported, never classifies goods or decides value or origin, and never contacts an importer, a supplier or CBP.

Lists in the live month are judged by the success criteria written before the test began.

// Later, one at a time

Where correction work could lead

Ranked with you
One job, then the next
  1. 01

    Customs entries from the commercial invoice

    The same line matching, one step earlier: the first draft of each entry built from the invoice before anything is filed.

    Next
  2. 02

    A liquidation watch on open entries

    A weekly list of open entries close to the end of the PSC window or to liquidation, built from copies of your entry records, for your broker to review.

    Then
  3. 03

    House bills from shipping instructions

    For forwarders that also issue house bills, the shipper's instructions drafted into the bill for your documentation desk.

    After that

// One hard limit

A licensed customs broker decides every correction.

The proof of concept compares copies and lists changes. It never files a post summary correction, a prior disclosure or a protest, never decides whether a change must be reported, never classifies goods or decides value or origin, and never contacts an importer, a supplier, a carrier or CBP. A licensed customs broker on your team decides, with the importer and its counsel where needed. Nothing here is legal advice.

Priced per job: a range before the proof of concept, a fixed price before you sign.

The range comes on the call, after we ask how many revised invoices reach your desk in a month and how many importers send them.

// Questions

What brokers ask about corrections

Will it tell us whether to file a PSC or a prior disclosure?
No. It lists each change, what the change touches and how much time the entry has left, and your licensed broker decides the route with the importer. The choice between a correction, a disclosure and no action stays entirely with your team.
Can it prepare the PSC itself?
Not in the proof of concept. It gives your broker a sourced list of changes, and keying and filing any correction stays with your team in your own system.
What if the entry has already liquidated?
The list says so and shows the liquidation date you sent. CBP names a prior disclosure or a protest as the ways to correct a liquidated entry, and which one fits, if either, is your broker's call.
Does it catch changes the importer didn't mention?
That is why every line is compared. A new price is easy to see, but a new factory address, another country on the packing list or a reworded description is easy to miss, so the list checks every field the entry used, not only the one named in the importer's email.
What about entries filed on a pro forma invoice?
Send them. When the final invoice replaces a pro forma, the list compares the two the same way and shows when the required invoice was due under 19 CFR 141.91, so your broker can see whether it came in on time.
Do you see anything privileged?
Leave out any advice the importer received from its lawyers. The test needs the invoices, the entry summaries and what your broker filed, nothing more, and every copy arrives after the NDA.
Rob Eason

Rob Eason, founder

// Book a proof of concept call

Start with entries your brokers already corrected.

A half-hour call with Rob Eason. You'll be asked your role at the brokerage, the job you want tested, and about how many revised invoices come in each month. Send no invoice or entry summary before the NDA is signed.

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