Question: What Country of Origin Documentation do you require from your vendors and how do you retain / cross reference it? If you have a one-off sample shipment, do you require a formal certificate of origin? Do you rely on a statement similar to the the NAFTA written representation letter used in Annex 401 […]
Question:Does anyone in the membership have a Certificate of Origin template they can share in Swedish or could translate one? We have a customer who’s customer is requesting the form in Swedish.
Question: Our CN office has just advised us that a shipment from our vendor was shipped w/ a shortage, however they filed their CN export clearance w/ the full quantity amount. Now our BOL shows the incorrect amount and they are advising us it is too late to revise the documents. Obviously I’m pushing back […]
Question:On foreign-to-foreign direct shipments where we charge a transfer price and are not the importer, is there a way to keep the customer from seeing what we pay the factories and who the factories are?
Question: I understand that US CBP requires “Mill Certificates” to be supplied at the time of entry when importing steel and steel products classified in Chapter 72 and 73 of the HS Tariff. I am looking for the regulation that spells out specifically what is required.
Question: We currently have an “international” note which is manually entered for any international purchase orders. It’s fairly lengthy and attempts to generally define our import requirements to vendors including marking, proper valuation, US HTS, ISF, etc. If our compliance team makes changes to the note, a completely new note and name has to be […]
Question: We are inundated with requests for certificates of origin, not freetrade agreement certificates of origin. When we ask about the reason for the request for this document, we hear that it is just standard practice to request it and more often than not the document itself ends up in a file and is not […]
We have upward of 3000 loads per year from our US parent company to our US sister company who acts as NRI into Canada. One CHB clears all the loads into Canada. We use SAP to generate all our customs invoices and either SAP or WMS to generate our BOLs. We also use a […]
I have a heavy question for the membership. Our company has company-owned branch sales offices located around the world. In some particular countries, we require a standard end use statement, on company letterhead and signed by a company official, to be filled out detailing what exactly the customer will be doing with the product prior […]
Can shipping documents for an export shipment from CN to EU show?: 1) Ocean BOL = Shipper/Exporter: ABC “Chinese” company in China Port 2) Commercial Invoice = Exporter: DEF “American” company in the US 3) Packing List = ABC “Chinese” company in a China Port
I have some concern on how our freight forwarder is presenting our cargo descriptions to our ocean carriers, which is used to generate our ocean bills of lading. What are the specific legal requirments on cargo descriptions?
Can the membership recommend any seminars on Letters of Credit and Import Documentation being offered on the East Coast?
