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 […]
Since theoretically precedent cases are not required to be submitted with DSP-5 or agreements what criteria do you use in choosing to submit precedent cases. All automatically? Selectively? How many?
Can one of the members please help clear up an export question on returns ? Is the schedule B number to export a repaired item the same if the product is of US or foreign origin ? While looking at 9801.10.0000 the description seems a little confusing. The description of having been previously imported just […]
Is anyone familiar with the USDA’s Sugar Containing Products Re-export Program. Additionally, can someone point me in the direction of information on the program, as well as provide the name of a consultant or firm that may assist in the filing to the USDA.
Our broker has told us that with a few exceptions, either the HTSUS OR Schedule B could be used to classify exports. Can anyone point us to any guidance that has been written in this regard?
We have product that is country of origin Hong Kong (cut/sew in HKG) that goes BACK to S. China (Shenzhen) for pressing/packing etc and then BACK to HKG again for export to US. I’m being told that because they are HKG country of origin, they have to physically export from Hong Kong. Couldn’t we just […]
Looking for some clarification on “routed exports”. Currently our FPPI’s contract the freight forwarders for U.S. export and we provide their contracted forwarder with the SLI (no POA). Is this a “routed export”? What are our obligations for export?
Can anyone in the membership provide advice on how your organization currently handles internet sales for shipments that originate in the US and are destined to another country? These would be direct to consumer sales orders. Specifically, I am inquiring on how the cost of duties and taxes are passed on to the customer and […]
Looking for some clarification on “routed exports”. Currently our FPPI’s contract the freight forwarders for U.S. export and we provide their contracted forwarder with the SLI (no POA). Is this a “routed export”? What are our obligations for export?
For export valuation, do the packaging and freight charges need to be 100% accurate, or is an estimate of the value on the invoice acceptable? What about the weight of the shipment on the invoice?
