QUESTION: How can I get courier to turn over imports into the US to our Customs Broker for informal/formal entries when I have sent a letter to them already? ========== Answers: Are you asking your suppliers/collaborators to mark the air waybills as “broker select”? That seems to work about 80% of the time. If any […]
QUESTION: We use the dedicated brokerage team of a large express carrier and been working closely together to ensure our parts database is current, and our SOP contains required information to reduce errors. In spite of reviews and corrective measures (which include a secondary review by the brokerage team prior to sending us the completed […]
QUESTION: Looking for best processes for importing low value courier shipments that have PGA involved. It is our understanding that: You can only import one Section 321 per day / per company The majority of PGA items cannot be cleared via Section 321 If both of those facts are true…what are some best practices for […]
QUESTION: We have been experiencing repeated problems with the import clearance division of an express carrier. Our company sister locations use an express carrier to send us regular shipments (5-20+ per week) CPT our Boston destination. Their import broker division repeatedly tells us they can’t find the part number in our HTS database, […]
QUESTION: A lot of our business moves small parcel and are high value shipments, by far over the $2,500K mark for filing a formal entry. Recently, I was auditing a freight invoice for a small parcel shipment and noticed that the charges were quite significant for what was shipped. I called the parcel company and […]
QUESTION: I am auditing my import entries under ACE Reporting AM008. Most of my brokers entries are there. However, I was alarmed to see very few and missing many from express couriers which I know we have made several entries. My questions to the group, Does ACE only capture Formal Entries and not […]
QUESTION: I am auditing my import entries under ACE Reporting AM008. Most of my brokers entries are there. However, I was alarmed to see very few and missing many from express couriers which I know we have made several entries. My questions to the group, Does ACE only capture Formal Entries and not Informal or […]
Question: We are related to our shipper, and use a courier for entry clearance. I am seeing different results when reviewing entries using the ISA review as a template. For informal entries, there is no relationship declared. Is this worth pursuing with the courier? Is it a CBP concern? For informal and formal entries, there […]
Question: We are required to use one of the express carriers for all shipments that we pay for when possible. This is a nightmare for import compliance. We now require the carrier to contact us for instruction for EVERY import shipment so that we can provide proper instruction. Most shipments are items coming in from […]
Question: Our company ships goods to Mexico. For most shipments, we move the freight to a near-border town, e.g. Laredo and then a freight forwarder handles moving the goods into Mexico. I need to know on courier shipments how to document the domestic move to Laredo for export purposes. Should the shipping […]
Question: I have read a lot of the prior topics concerning “Express” shipments, and Ibasically have the same issues as everyone else. On my recent internal auditwith our outside counsel, his assessment on our customs compliance was veryvery low, which means we are at very high risk. This came as no surprise to me as […]
Question: We are transitioning from one express courier to another. During ourimplementation meeting we mentioned that we were not able to see a copyof the 3461 and 7501 on their website for some of the intermittentshipments that were already moving through their network. The brokerage manager explained that their system does not createindividual 3461 or […]
