QUESTION: We buy products and parts from US vendors and need to export, and those civil products obviously belong to EAR99 and we don’t see any possibility of dual use. However, we have recently learned that the product contains a couple of circuit boards (PCB boards) which had hundreds of various electric components soldered on […]
QUESTION: Company “A” is buying from Company “B” – Company “A” is exporting the goods to Company “C” overseas – In my experience Company “A” is the Exporter – Correct or incorrect? %%%%%%%%%% ANSWER: Maybe. Maybe not. Not quite enough information to go on. Assuming both Company A and Company B are in the […]
QUESTION: During a review of ACE Export reports we noticed that some “routed exports” were actually flagged as standard exports. Is this considered a “violation”, and do the EEI/AES filings on these exports need to be corrected to indicate that they were actually routed exports? Clearly this needs to be addressed with the FPPI and […]
QUESTION: Company “A” is buying from Company “B” – Company “A” is exporting the goods to Company “C” overseas – In my experience Company “A” is the Exporter – Correct or incorrect? ========== Answers: If Company A and Company B are based in the same country and that sale is a domestic transaction, then it […]
QUESTION: 15 CFR 30.6(a)(2) says the date of export is “date when goods are scheduled to leave the port of export on the exporting carrier that is taking the goods out of the United States.” When a carrier rolls that date, is the filer obligated to amend the EEI with the revised date? More specifically, […]
QUESTION: My company currently conducts “triangulated-shipments” in conjunction with our foreign affiliates. Example: Colombia affiliate orders products from my USA company. Products are shipped directly to the end customer in Ecuador. We provide our Colombia affiliate an inter-company invoice; they pay us. Colombia affiliate in turn provides Ecuador customer a separate commercial invoice for customs […]
QUESTION: We are looking to adapt an in house automated commercial invoicing system that will assign sequential commercial invoice numbers for each shipment/export made. Are there “unique country exporting to” requirements behind the assigned commercial invoice numbers that anybody is aware? Example: If you ship to a country throughout the year, the shipments to that […]
QUESTION: We have a routed export agreement where our customer (FPPI) assumes export responsibilities and names a US Freight Forwarder to conduct export.The agreement we have on file is signed by our customer (FPPI) and the listed US Freight Forwarder.As the USPPI, we are responsible to provide data elements to the US Forwarder which include […]
QUESTION: A new regulations in Ghana requires the shipper/forwarder/exporter at port of origin to provide a Cargo Tracking Note (CTN#) which is an official loading certificate number that confirms detailed information about cargo and its movement between ports. The process to obtain a CTN is outlined on the website: https://www.ctnghana.com/faqs/#14321 The issue is that one […]
QUESTION: I need help on interpreting requirements for exports to MX from Laredo, TX. The path of the goods is as follows: EU > moved to US and transferred in-bond to Laredo, TX > export to MX. As the goods are never cleared and entered into the U.S.A. commerce, and are then exported to Mexico […]
QUESTION: Does anyone have a POA template for export/Freight Forwarding only without Customs clearance/brokerage clause? It should include AES/EEI and related export filing language. ========== Answer: There is a very basic one in FTR – Appendix A to Part 30 ==========
QUESTION: We need to return a container of lumber from VN to the US because it didn’t meet the customer’s specifications. The lumber is currently unloaded at the VN customer’s warehouse. Once it is returned to the US, we want to immediately export it to another country (VN regulations won’t allow it to ship directly […]
