Question: The Exporter/USPPI should be screening many parties to the export transaction. My question is what does a freight forwarder screen? I can only think of what is mentioned on the AWB or SLI (Shipper, Intermediate Consignee, and Consignee), if names (Individuals) are provided, than those names are screened. So the screening to a […]
Question: Does anyone have a corporate level Export Compliance training deck that can be shared with the membership? I’m working on one for my company and want to make sure I’m covering all the information that is pertinent to the “general population” in the sense of Export control awareness. ============================= ANSWER: The awareness […]
Question: My U.S. based company sells medical devices that are listed on the ITSR list of medical exceptions. If we intend to use the General License to ship to Iran, do we need to file anything in advance with OFAC to get their permission to ship? Or, can we ship without specific permission using […]
Question: Our company offers online and instructor-led courses and we are looking for guidance on classifying those courses for export. The subjects of our courses involve the operation of various types of sophisticated IT software and IT hardware (networking, servers, etc). The audience for our courses are software engineers or IT technicians. Some of […]
Question: I’m trying to determine if a BIS license must be filed with CBP the port of export or whether it can be filed with any port nationwide. What is the requirement? Additionally, is it documented in 15 or 19 CFR? ******************** Answers: Are you mistaking BIS with DDTC (who used to require “lodging” of […]
Question: Just wondering if anyone is using the new Exporter Reporting out of ACE? We have been trying to get this set up, but just wondering if anyone has had trouble running the reports after set up, are they useful, etc. ========== Answers: We have run all three reports available to the industry and we […]
Question: We have a situation – foreign customer in country A ordered goods from US subsidiary and US subsidiary ordered from foreign subsidiary in country B and goods drop ship from the manufacture in country B to custom in country A. The export classification for the product to customer’s country A subject to export […]
Question: It’s an export shipment from U.S. to Pakistan. If the transaction value (fair market value) should be $10,000.00, and we provide 75% discount for customer and the selling price is $2,500.00, which value $10,000.00 or $2,500.00 should be listed on export documents (Commercial Invoice) for customer? Can we use $2500 for customer […]
Question: We are a manufacturing company that has both domestic and international customers. Some domestic customers are asking us to provide the HTS and ECCN for our entire product line. We have given these on a case- by- case basis, with an appropriate disclosure that the information provided is based on our knowledge, but it […]
Question: Can a product that qualifies for NAFTA (Made in US): be shipped to Holland, enter commerce of Holland and sit on inventory shelf for one year, not opened/not advanced in value, be returned to US, enter commerce of US and then shipped to MX and qualify for NAFTA? ————————————— ANSWERS: No, it has […]
Question: We have a shipment that being shipped by truck to Mexico. The goods are under $2500 (NLR) so there is no AES filing. We are told that we need a US broker to “clear” the shipment on the US side. Would one of the members be able to explain why we need a US […]
Question: I would like to ask the membership how they handle imports that are marked as “import for export” and are subject to FDA. We traditionally have long clearance times on this type of import. Is there any type of paperwork we could provide ahead of time or at time of clearance? Or, are […]
