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Who may accept an offer in compromise of liquidated damages?
- Any import specialist
- The importer, by paying the offered sum
- The Department of Commerce
- The officer who has authority to decide the petition, except that a surety show-cause case stays with the Headquarters official who issued the letter
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D. The officer who has authority to decide the petition, except that a surety show-cause case stays with the Headquarters official who issued the letter
Authority to accept the offer rests with the official who decides the petition. A case in which a surety was issued a show-cause letter stays with the Headquarters official who issued that letter.
Source: 19 CFR 172.32
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