Question: How much is too much? I recently joined a company who exports very low risk products, let’s say “apples” used to make apple pies. They had a law firm help begin to create a formal trade compliance program. This includes a high-priority project to implement end-use statements that goods will not be used for […]
Question: What is the best course of action with a repeat offender who has been given notice to not file EEI as routed transaction? I have one freight forwarder of my customer who files an EEI even after my broker/filer has issued the ITN and emailed to them. The FF appears to understand, cancels the […]
Question: Would anyone in the membership who is a regular exporter from France be willing to have a brief benchmarking conversation with us around export processes and compliance? We are established in the EU, but have a somewhat unique process for our exports from France that involves an accounting firm and we are looking to […]
Question: We have used courier services/parcel carriers to ship from the US to Canada for Low-Value shipment. It seems that some of those shipments were delivered to the final consignee without being Customs cleared. We are now receiving a “Request to clear” from the courier company, one year after the fact. CBSA has also noticed […]
Question: With regard to exports, is there a regulatory requirement or citation as to whom can sign an export written authorization form i.e. must it be a corporate officer or is it acceptable for a non-corporate officer to sign the written authorization? Answer 1: There are no specific rules on who can sign the written […]
Question: My company is looking at a potential business transaction where shipment would go from Brazil factory directly to the Customer in Saudi Arabia, therefore bypassing the US. We may or may not provide the transportation. What concerns and due diligence should I have? We typically operate just as an importer to the US. This […]
Question: My company routinely sells under the FCA Incoterm (2010 or 2020). Under this trade term, we are commercially obligated to perform Customs formalities at origin. Our operations team files EEIs with export transportation details provided by the customer or their forwarder. We understand there is no causation between Incoterms and the Foreign Trade Regulations […]
Question: I am looking for input for a shipping label to be applied to outside packaging and not product marking. While I understand each country may have different import label requirements, I am aiming towards best practices. These would be for non-service provider generated shipping labels (i.e. parcel carriers). Domestic shipment sample: Shipper name and […]
Question: We currently provide our Mexico Customer a Pro Forma invoice to complete Import into Mexico. They are giving us pushback explaining that the Proforma Invoice document number has to be the same as the actual Invoice document number that will be issued at a later date. I am not finding anywhere on the Mexico […]
Question: We are a Canadian entity with a related US entity. In Texas we are using our related party as a consolidation point or transport cross dock facility moving commercial goods. We purchase from a TX vendor, have the goods brought to our TX location, then load onto an LTL truck for final delivery up […]
Question: I am new to the Trade Compliance team here for about a month and I’ve just learned that the team manually creates export commercial documents for certain shipments when needed because they’ve been told that certain countries have unique documentation requirements. I am not a proponent of manually creating commercial documents. I am wondering […]
Question: We have a client in Japan want us to buy a few compact Tractors in US, so we will be the Exporter. We have reached out to a few distributors and they only sell the tractors locally, so they refused to provide Export information such as the ECCN, Export license, Dangerous Goods Declaration, ETC. […]
