We are a manufacturing facility and we have some of our Domestic accounts wanting us to drop ship our product to their freight forwarder so they can export our product. My question is do we now consider their account as an export account?
We’re looking to move to terms DDU or DAF on shipments that are currently routed exports sent to Miami or Laredo and then exported by the forwarder/agent of our Latin American customer. Based on information from our Latin American sales team we expect a significant amount of pushback from our customers who utilize freight consolidators […]
There seems to be some changes within DTC specifically 124.13 guidelines for exporting unclassified technical data on a DSP-5 for offshore procurement. DTC, the response team and AES all have stated that the reporting requirements for technical data has changed recently but none can give a definitive answer on how to report it. Is there […]
Can anyone tell me what a certified proof of export is? One of our customers is requesting that we provide to them a certified proof of export for shipments to the EU.
How do other companies in the membership handle the “U.S. export laws that apply to electronic devices when traveling”? Export laws and regulations view departing the U.S. with “controlled technical data,” whether embedded in e-mails or in files or folders stored on laptops, thumb drives, PDAs, or other storage devices, as an “export” of data […]
We provide parts for Sony PSP?s. Our Engineers have literally taken apart a Sony PSP to check out a problem, nothing was added or changed , just looked at. and now they want to send it over seas torn apart. My question is ;What is the best way to state this on an invoice and […]
When employees are returning from over-seas and shipping their tools and tool boxes used on site locations back to the US, you can use the HTSUS 9801.00.8500 since these are tools of the trade. What is the best Schedule B/HTSUS to use when shipping these tools out to the location? There are a variety of […]
I am looking for a site on information for finding what the exact export documents are required to import into said countries. I am interested in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Also what the minimum legal requirements are on an export commercial invoice document. We are getting a new Oracle system and I need […]
If a forwarder uses a horribly wrong Sched B number, one that is mapped to a normally licensable commodity, what corrective options does the USPPI have regarding the erroneous SED? The actual product shipped was not / is not controlled and the USPPI always gives the correct Sched B numbers to the freight forwarder. I’ll […]
We sell food and beverage products to distributors who re-sell to Central/South America for us. We used to allow our distributors to pick up at our warehouse and handle the entire export logistics but when we learned that some were actually re-selling (diverting) to the US market we are no longer allowing EXW and only […]
Company A (a U.S. company/person) is subcontracted by Company B (also a U.S. company) to perform installation work on a communications system on a U.S. Military Vessel located in a foreign destination in Asia. If Company A does not take any defense materials with them what export compliance responsibility does Company A have, if any? […]
Is anyone familiar with the regulations on exporting caffeine from China? We are looking into sourcing this ingredient but are being told that it takes 60 days to get a gov’t issued license to export this product via ocean and that quantities over 200g are not allowed by airfreight. I cannot find anything on this […]
