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Informed Compliance Publication: Mitigation Guidelines: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages

The documents below are electronic versions of the Mitigation Guidelines Informed Compliance Publication, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Mitigation Guidelines: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages (“Mitigation Guidelines ICP”).  The entire Mitigation Guidelines ICP was last released in February 2004 as a 253-page pdf document.  CBP is now systematically updating the Mitigation Guidelines ICP.  As an initial step in the process, CBP is posting the Mitigation Guidelines ICP here as 39 separate documents, with each document covering a section of the ICP.  Each electronic document is being initially posted here as it was issued in FEBRUARY 2004 without change.  CBP will systematically update each electronic document, with select updated documents being posted here quarterly (in October, January, April, and July).  The documents will not necessarily be updated in order.  CBP will indicate that a document has been updated by revising the date in parentheses next to each link.

Last Modified: Oct 13, 2023