QUESTION: I would like the membership’s input on the ocean bill of lading detail for drop ships. We currently have a relationship with a foreign seller in China where they ship product to our customers in Europe. Under these transactions, the terms of sale are FOB Origin Port. These FOB terms are applied […]
Question: We have been informed by a customer in China that there is a requirement from Chinese customs that the weight of each line on a packing list is itemized, rather than the weight of the entire shipment being summarized, as it is our current practice. We asked the […]
Question: This is a question to all the apparel importers. We have always required the Wearing Apparel Detail sheet (WAD) to be included with the commercial docs for all of our apparel entries. Our invoice descriptions are generic, so the WAD, covers the additional invoice requirements in 141.89 (a). We have a vendor […]
Question: Typical Sales transaction from US to EU: USA group company A sells to UK group company B, then UK Company B sells to Customer C in Germany. When drop shipping from A to C, we ask a freight forwarder to switch commercial invoice upon arriving at destination for destination import clearance. Company B […]
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 […]
