Entry

Questions and answers about Entry

  • 7501 RELATED PARTY INDICATOR

    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 […]

  • SEC 321 ENTRIES

    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 […]

  • 7501 IOR ADDRESS

    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 […]

  • IN-BOND ENTRY PROCESSING

    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 […]

  • IN-BOND ENTRY PROCESSING

    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 […]

  • B/L AND ENTRY FILING AFTER ACQUISITION

    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 […]

  • INFORMAL ENTRY DOCS REQUIRED

    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 […]

  • FIELD 32 OF 7501

      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 […]

  • IMPORT ENTRY DATA

      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?   **************

  • RIGHT TO MAKE ENTRY

      QUESTION:   I am the owner of a dry shipper which is used in the pharmaceutical industry to ship perishable drugs at cryogenic temperatures.  We rent/lease these shippers to various drug companies for their own use. Some dry shippers are sent overseas and empty shipper returning to the lessee for their use again. The […]

  • INFORMAL ENTRIES

    Question: We’ve been advised by our forwarder that we should look into using China Post as an alternative to air freight on some of our hot shipments. As my Director is hearing this, he believes we can ship multiple shipments of product (under $2500 per shipment) using China post, file an informal entry and the […]