• OUTSOURCING COMPLIANCE

    Question: We have a senior leader who wants to outsource all trade data management.   He doesn’t want anyone within our company to have any access to that trade data and only wants the third party consulting company to have access.  This does not seem right to me, as at the end of the day, my […]

  • LASSIFICATION SPECIALIST JOB DESCRIPTION

    Question: We are in the process of developing a job description for a new positionwithin our compliance organization.  The position would be primarilyresponsible for classifying product in the US, confirming globalclassification with counterparts in Asia/Europe/etc., auditing existingproduct classifications, maintaining this information in SAP/GTS, formalizingprocedures & process flows, etc. Would anyone be willing to share a […]

  • JOB DESCRIPTIONS

    Question: I need job descriptions for two positions. One is data entry clerk and theother is for customs supervisor clerk. They are related for an in-hosebrokerage proposal. Does anybody have  a job description that are willing to share?

  • Regulatory and Compliance Structure

    Question: Could the membership please offer some generic information about your regulatory & compliance structures? In particular I am looking more for functions that your export compliance group handles as well as what departments handle other regulations in the company. The reason for this question is that our export compliance department is growing and adding […]

  • ANNUAL CORPORATE BRIEFING

    Question:Recently, I attempted to schedule my annual executive briefing with our corporate leadership. I was told that since we now have on line mandatory compliance awareness training (that is the 75K foot level) we don’t need to have our annual “chat” and that them taking the on line training will suffice for the corporate audit.  […]

  • COMPLIANCE STRATEGY

    Question:Does anyone in the community have a good deck of slides pertaining to a trade management roadmap for a multi billion dollar company. This would include both import and export. I have been tasked with showing the current state , targeting the high penalty areas, and showing how we are going to get to a […]

  • Unwritten policy against hiring LCB

    Question:I recently found out that there is a certain Fortune 100 company(importer/exporter/manufacturer) that has an unwritten policy the prohibitsthe hiring of a licensed customs broker (LCB) to lead or be part of theircustoms compliance company program (Staff: 7 Import, 10 Export, all incompliance (none are licensed)).  My take is that if the LCB sees anincident […]

  • TRADE COMPLIANCE ORGANIZATIONALSTRUCTURE

    Question: I know that this question has been asked in various ways in the past butI’m looking for something a little more specific. I have been tasked by ourLegal Department with providing senior management with examples of theorganizational structure of the trade compliance department of the NorthAmerican division of a large Global company.  It’s not […]

  • Compliance Staffing

    Question:   Fellow ICPAers our U.S. import business by entry value equals about $48million annual.  I am the one and only Compliance person tasked with HT coding, checking for AD/CV, review of all products, review of all entries, etc. the whole package.  I am given less and less time to do these duties and the […]

  • Export Group

    Question:  Our company is planning on making some changes to our customer service department. I suggested that the export group be pulled out of customer service and report to the trade compliance manager. These people would then become import / export coordinators or specialists. They currently only process exports and the compliance manager (myself) processes […]