Question: I’m not familiar with master bill of ladings and house bill of ladings and don’t quite understand them. A supplier shipped 3 containers under one commercial invoice. All containers departed on the same vessel. The shipment ended up being booked under 3 separate master bills and therefore my broker is telling me that 3 […]
Question: There was an obvious typo made by the courier upon entry. The entry summary lists the value at $126000. Throughout the rest of the documents the value is listed $12,600.00 Someone created a typo and we can’t get the courier to correct it. This caused a serious duty charge upon import, that our […]
Question: We are a self-filer. When we find an error on our US Customs entry prior to the summary date we re-transmit the entry with the corrections. Does CBP monitor the rate of re-transmissions and inform the filer if the rate of these re-transmissions is too high? If so, what would be an unacceptable rate […]
Question: We are the owner of goods which are stored in a third party warehouse in Canada which are routinely imported into the US. The goods are moved from the third party warehouse to the US destination, but since we are the owner of the goods, no sale takes place. The shipper on the BOL […]
Question: Can a section 321 entry be amended? We have a shipment that crossed the Canadian border, the commercial invoice provided with the shipment does not have the correct value on it. The correct value is above $200.00. Can this entry be amended? If so, how do you go about doing it. The entry has […]
Question: Is there a preference or regulation that dictates what address to use for Block 26 on the 7501 for the IOR name and address? Situation: Entries for my company shows the address for the corporation as either the physical address from the bond or the mailing address from the bond. This is different than […]
Question: My company has asked our broker to clear our goods as soon as possible on our entries arriving via air freight. When shipment is coming directly to the port of entry they can clear wheels up. But they are arguing that they cannot transmit the entry via ABI for an air shipment that is […]
My company has asked our broker to clear our goods as soon as possible on our entries arriving via air freight. When shipment is coming directly to the port of entry they can clear wheels up. But they are arguing that they cannot transmit the entry via ABI for an air shipment that is moving […]
Question: Our public company has recently been purchased by a private equity firm and as we get closer to finalizing the sale it has been brought to my attention that the bank is requesting our BOLs be consigned to them so that in the event our company defaults or decides to close our doors they […]
Question: Has anyone in the membership seen an unusually high amount of entry docs required for informal entries? Does it seem to be filer based? ================ Answer: Whenever we’ve had a spike in “doc’s required” it usually turns out to be something CBP has flagged in their system. We talked with our Port and figured […]
Question: Recently, our company’s internal audit group performed an audit of our US international trade function, including customs. They identified an issue with field 32(b) on form 7501, the CHGS field for capturing charges between the port of export and the US port of import. Our foreign affiliates book the […]
Question: I am new in my role and there is no centralization on our import data. Where can I get a hold of our import entry information that is relatively simple and cost effective? **************
