Export Compliance

Questions and answers about Export Compliance

  • EXPORT COMPLIANCE PROGRAM

    QUESTION: NOTE: members MUST reply directly to: krhoads@proofpoint.com Has anyone has recently rolled out an Export Compliance Program, or, have a solid ECP in place and is willing to share their experience and knowledge. We have a solid, but rough framework in place using the ECP Guidelines from BIS and other various publications.  Yet, would […]

  • DECLARING CORRECT EXPORT VALUE

    QUESTION: I am new to managing logistics/trade compliance for a cybersecurity company that provides mainly saas based products. On occasion, we ship appliances/servers with imaged software to international locations.  We use the invoice to note the sale price of the imaged appliance for shipment value.  Often though,  the invoice contains other saas products and service […]

  • DECLARING CORRECT COUNTRY OF EXPORT

    QUESTION: I am having a discussion with my Customs Broker on what is the correct declaration for country of export on a recent shipment.  Scenario-  one shipment from a  vendor in Germany. Ex works Germany, forwarder located in Netherlands and sailed from Rotterdam, House bill shows pick up location as Germany, port of export Rotterdam..  […]

  • MISCLASS OF EXPORTED MERCHANDISE

    QUESTION: I’m hoping someone can shed light or point me in the right direction regarding the potential misclassification of export merchandise.    All of our company’s products are EAR99/NLR so there is no matter of licensing; we also have a denied party screening program in place.   However, some of the items being exported are assembled into […]

  • IMPORT-EXPORT MANUALS

    QUESTION: If a company does not have an import-export (trade compliance) manuals what are the consequences with CBP and BIS? Are there penalties? Do I need to emphasize with management the need and/or requirement for these documents? Are corporate manuals and SOPs with brokers and freight forwarders mandatory? ************** Answers:No, they are not “mandatory”, and […]

  • HK customer asking to break an order up

    QUESTION: I was auditing some export shipments to HK and found four shipments destined for the same customer, exported on the same day.  The value of each was $500, making the total value $2,000.  Less than the EEI filing threshold. In addition to the extra shipping and processing costs I am wondering if the reason […]

  • Routed exports practices

    QUESTION: We make several hundreds of FCA, customer pick up shipments a month, all items that we sell are EAR99. We have a global ERP system and these orders are placed by the overseas customer service on the US branch plants, they also generate CI and SLI for their customer and coordinate cargo pick up […]

  • EXPORT RECORDKEEPING PENALTIES

    QUESTION: Where can I find the potential fines and penalties for not maintaining export documentation for five years as a USPPI? ========== Answers: There is one from 2009 where the yellow-red express carrier could not produce records that were within the five year statute resulting in a settlement agreement that was almost $10 million. Just […]

  • U.S Export Control for SPL Screening and issue of lost in translation

    QUESTION: Would the membership share your best practices for SPL screening in compliance with U.S. export control? I came to realize that the language translations such as Chinese can be different than OFAC characters translation. For example, when I showed local Chinese some of the SDN list, the entities and or individual are non-existence in […]

  • EEI Filing

    QUESTION: One of our locations could not complete the EEI filing because the system went down. The product was shipped anyway with an EEI filing. Value of $3,500.00. How do we fix this? Do we self report? To whom? Will there be fines or penalties? ************** Add’l Answer: Some good answers below, follow their advice. […]

  • Getting on to the export side of trade compliance

    QUESTION: I have friends who have specialized in import trade compliance for 10 years, mostly in apparel/footwear and consumer products. They have dabbled in export TC but its very basic – screenings, record keeping, auditing export filings, all EAR99 product. Taken the online BIS training’s. Any knowledge of difficult export requirements is really theoretical. No […]

  • Export Compliance personnel

    QUESTION: Our company doubled its size for the last 7 years while we did not increase number of Export Compliance personnel (EAR99 worldwide sales). I was wondering if you can share similar trend and if possible, how many people in export compliance you have per overall number of employees in your company. Ours is 1/4500. […]