Customs Broker License Revocation Overturned: Undervaluation Allegations Don't Justify Penalties, Officers Still Responsible Under Act.

Revocation of customs broker licence - undervaluation - The logical and sequential arrangement of the obligations devolving on customs brokers does not admit of any scope to cite the same fact as act of omission or commission manifesting as breach thereto of two, or more, of the prescriptions of proper conduct. - The Regulations have not, in any way, discharged ‘proper officer of customs’ from responsibility for undertaking functions under the Act and neither does the Act contemplate that the customs broker is the authorized person to whose compliance with the Regulations customs officers subordinate their statutory powers. - There are no reason that the detriment and penalty imposed in the orders should be allowed to survive - AT .....

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