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. […]
Question: When returning back products to South Korea and China from US, no advancement in value or no further processing done, products will be returned because of excessive inventory, do I need to create a new Invoice, Packing List with our organization (here in US) as export of record and the supplier in south Korea […]
Question: Does anyone know where St. Barth’s (Saint Barthélemy, officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, also known as St. Barts (English) or St. Barth (French) (per Wikipedia)) is considered for CCL/country list purposes? The internet says it’s an overseas collective of France / the EU, which isn’t a category in the country list. I don’t see it in […]
Question: I would like to ask the community on a routed transaction what would be the easier to process export-routed shipments. This foreign company purchases products from several US vendors consolidate these products at the border and export under one manifest to Mexico to a maquiladora. The broker has POA to file AES, the buyer has […]
Question: This question is for exporters who ship to Turkey. We engaged with a distributor in Turkey to buy our goods. We were advised that because of the type of merchandise we export to Turkey we must complete an Exporters Registry form. I thought it was just a form to complete and submit with normal […]
