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Maximize Your Duty Drawback Recoveries

The Trading Drawback Model is a compliant method of recovering import duty and fees via duty drawback by matching imports against exports of unrelated parties through a partnership with DL Trading.

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Duty Drawback Made Easy

DL Trading was formed for the sole purpose of maximizing drawback. Since its formation in 2000, it is the oldest and largest (by number of claims and dollars recovered) trading drawback company in existence. We partner with existing importers and exporters to recover duties which they can’t recover on their own. Our unique partnership brings significant and ongoing duty recoveries which flow directly to our partners’ bottom-line profits.

The Trading Drawback Model is applied after all internal opportunities have been exhausted. Companies that are importing and exporting from the United States (“U.S.”) can file directly for duty drawback recoveries. However, in most cases, companies have an imbalance of either import volumes or export volumes, both of which restrict their ability to maximize duty recoveries. These imbalances are where a DL Trading partnership can benefit your company.

Leading Drawback Architects

As the model architect and the leading trading drawback company, DL Trading is unmatched in its stability. DL Trading has numerous U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) rulings and informational letters to its name that established and continue to validate concepts and foundation of the Trading Drawback Model.

Specifically, DL Trading specializes in establishing drawback recoveries through partnerships with various U.S. importers and exporters for their excess or previously undeveloped duty-drawback recoveries. Until passage of the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015 (“TFTEA”), Trading Drawback Model was limited to a finite group of Harmonized Tariff Schedule of U.S. (“HTSUS”) codes mainly in the Chemicals, Plastics and Resins categories. Since the enactment of TFTEA, The Trading Model has expanded its reach to all HTSUS chapters. Please contact DL Trading for a complimentary duty drawback analysis and uncover your drawback potential.

Frequently Asked Questions

The DL Trading concept in no way interferes with your existing drawback program. The Trading Model applies only to imports and exports that are in excess of what your company can use internally.
Although some importers and exporters may be in a position to initiate such programs on their own to a limited extent, the majority of companies have either excess imports or exports that will require DL Trading’s intermediary trade service program to realize the maximum benefits available.
DL Trading will work with your existing brokers, carriers and other logistics providers. To that end, there should be minimal change in your current operations. You will have full knowledge of all the transactions involved so that you can be aware of the position of your materials at any point in time through DL Trading and your existing providers.
No. DL Trading must have title to the goods with risk of loss passing to DL Trading in order to satisfy the requirements of the regulations. Such transactions can be established through a purchase and sale or material exchange transactions under the standard commercial incoterms.
DL Trading provides full confidentiality between all importers and exporters and acts as a firewall by not disclosing confidential information. Unless both parties desire and mutually agree to know their counterparty, full confidentiality is maintained. In fact, there may be added confidentiality, especially on the import side, since DL Trading, not our partner company, will now be the importer of record.

Industry Affiliates

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The American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI), is the premier trade organization representing those immediately engaged in and directly impacted by developments pertaining to international trade. AAEI is recognized as technical experts regarding the day-to-day facilitation of trade.
American Petroleum Institute (API) is the only national trade association representing all facets of the natural gas and oil industry, which supports 10.3 million U.S. jobs and nearly 8 percent of the U.S. economy. API’s more than 600 members include large integrated companies, as well as exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, and marine businesses, and service and supply firms. They provide most of the nation’s energy and are backed by a growing grassroots movement of more than 47 million Americans. API was formed in 1919 as a standards-setting organization. In its first 100 years, API has developed more than 700 standards to enhance operational and environmental safety, efficiency and sustainability.
The Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is a voluntary government-business initiative that builds cooperative relationships that strengthen and improve overall international supply chain and U.S. border security. C-TPAT is widely recognized as one of the most effective means of providing the highest level of cargo security through close cooperation with international supply chain businesses such as importers, carriers, consolidators, licensed customs brokers, and manufacturers. Through this initiative, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is asking businesses to ensure the integrity of their security practices and communicate and verify the security guidelines of their business partners within the supply chain.
International Compliance Professionals Association (ICPA) is a non-profit, global trade compliance community whose mission is to provide networking opportunities and resources to individuals involved in international trade compliance.