Question: Hello! So, if we get a purchase order from a company in Indonesia (email used for actual order no hard copy PO) but they request us to ship to a forwarder in Singapore, what are the risks involved? I do not like the fact that we are the USPPI for this type of transaction […]
Question: Does anyone in the membership have a general DFARS requirement checklist in Excel that they’d be willing to share? Answer 1: This might be helpful. Good luck. https://www.icpainc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FAR-Review.pdf
Question: Our company sells and ships USML and CCL items to other companies outside the U.S.; most of these items go via FedEx. How do you determine the U.S. Port of Export (to be put into AES)? Sometimes it’s Memphis, but recently some of our items heading to the Pacific stop in Honolulu first. How […]
Question: Good afternoon, Does anyone know if UK export control applies for shipment from UK mainland to Gibraltar? Currently we export non dual-use goods, but we may export such products in the future. Many thanks. Answer 1: Export control does apply for export from the UK to Gibraltar. On SPIRE you can verify this by […]
Question: We are a US exporter and have a customer requesting that we list EU HS codes (provided by the customer) on the documents. Is there a specific law that requires this? Would you have any concerns doing this? In our current state, we do not have the bandwidth to actively monitor these codes for […]
Question: Our US company purchased a container of wood from Germany and sold it to a company in the UAE. Our purchasing terms with the German company were CIF-UAE port, meaning that the German company would bear all costs to ship it to the UAE port. However, we later found out that our company was […]
Question: Question: Order is received from a US Company to a US Company – Invoice shows Sold to: US company – Ship to Israel Customer ask documents to be created by “us” the US company to show sold to: Israel Customer & ship to Israel Customer (based on values no EEI was required) it looks […]
Question: When using a 3PL warehouse for storage and shipping of your goods – who does the invoices when you have export shipment? Do you as the USPPI prepare invoice and send it to the 3PL for them to use? Do they as 3PL have authorization to generate invoice on your behalf showing your company […]
Question: Dear Members, We are an U.S. entity. We have a supplier in Japan (Supplier J). We purchase/import their products to the U.S., and distribute to end users in the U.S. We have a prospective customer in Singapore (Customer S) who would like to purchase the product that is sold by Supplier J. We would […]
Question: For those that do electronic invoicing for shipments through FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc, how do you handle recordkeeping. Do you also have the system generate a pdf of the invoice for you to keep. Answer 1: When I worked for Nippon Express, after I completed the file/give to the billing department, processed the billing […]
Question: Hello: Our company sells to distributors and resellers when shipping to certain international locations. Do we need to report both the distributor and end-user when filing our export declarations? Thank you in advance for your response! Answer 1: The consignee/ship to party/distributor = ultimate consignee in EEI/AES, assuming you are in fact SHIPPING to […]
Question: We export product from several locations that we either own or lease. The exporter/seller on our paperwork shows our corp office, and the shipping location is also noted (different address, never the corp office). Our forwarder uses the p/u location as the USPPI. Is that ok to do? Shouldn’t it be the corp address […]
