Question: As a distributor, we are selling medical equipment domestically to a humanitarian group who will export the merchandise with the required license to North Korea. We intend to instruct our buyer about his obligations as an exporter since we know the final destination of the goods and the buyer has provided us […]
Question: Our supplier is responsible for transportation and costs to move our product to Laredo, Texas to be ultimately exported to Mexico. The Incoterm is DAF. Do we need to include the freight and insurance costs in the value of the merchandise we are reporting in AES? Or do we include those costs only when […]
Question: We are putting together a sample kit for different gloves we are trying to sell outside of the US, i.e. Canada, Mexico. This kit is for our sales and distributors when visiting potential customers. Although the product is the same, gloves, these gloves are different, metal mesh, textile with rubber, and leather. They are […]
Question: Our intercompany customers in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic have requested that we not consolidate orders to them due to their local customs regulations. Have any other members received this type of request? My concern is that this may be a “customer” requirement and not an actual “customs” requirement. Not […]
Question: Through a conversation I had recently with an Export Compliance person from another company, it was mentioned that they perform a bi-annual check of all their US and foreign subsidiary employees against the Restricted Party Listings issued by OFAC and BIS (they stated this requirement is outlined in UN resolution 1390, Part 2A, […]
Question: We are specifically be required to do a routed export transaction since ourcustomer requires that we have their forwarder hand the export out of thecountry.But we require that we file the AES EEI since we know it will be donecorrectly. The forwarder has agreed to this.Does someone have the properly wordsmithed Written Authorization thatpertains […]
Question: Those anyone in the membership have a presentation for export compliance awareness training for IT. I have been asked to provide awareness training to this group and a really have only the very basics. The training will take place on June 8. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Question: My company sells machines for exports, but due to the size of our machines, they are exported in up to 7-8 shipments (some of the shipments are direct from foreign suppliers to our foreign customer). The issue is, we sell a machine, but ship components of the machine until the whole machine has shipped. […]
Question: Would the members consider access by US person employee to technical data or technology on the US company’s network via VPN from outside the country an export if no non-US persons are given access? (Is the data really leaving the US?)
Question: Can anyone help me find a quick way to get Russian Regulations either in English or Russian?
Question: The question sounds like it involves an FCA (customer’s forwarder) situation. In all cases, seems like the answer is that the customer’s forwarder needs to be filing EEI on the FPPI’s behalf. Perhaps I should pose the question, what about the INCOterm saying shipper is responsible for clearing for export? How does that impact […]
Question: We received product back from a UK customer that they wanted re-tested to a tighter specification. The product itself did not change form, fit, or function – it was simply re-tested (service). We considered this to be a repair, and were sending it back out under 9801.10.0000 with a declared value of the […]
