Foreign Trade Zones

Questions and answers about Foreign Trade Zones

  • CBP FORM 3078

    Question: We are an operator of an FTZ distribution center. Recently local CBP requested that we complete a CF 3078, application for identification card, on behalf of one our corporate officers (who incidentally do not reside in the FTZ, but corp HQ in a different state). They said this was required due to a new […]

  • FTZ LETTER TO SUPPLIERS

      Question: We are starting up an FTZ at our US manufacturing facility. We want to send   a letter to our USA based vendors, alerting them that we will only accept   “domestic” status merchandise. I have drafted the below; does anyone have   any comments on it? Dear US Supplier, ABC Co. will […]

  • FTZ SIGNAGE Addt’l answers

    Question: We are going to be implementing a FTZ in the next few months and are currently working on getting our signage made to inform people that they will be entering the zone and must abide by the regulations under 18 U.S.C. 549. Could anyone please give some suggestions: -What size the sign should be. […]

  • ECONOMIC ZONES

    Question: My company has a manufacturer located in an Economic Zone in India.  We order goods from them, and have them shipped to our facility in the US for testing. (the testing is for quality control purposes).  Once the testing is complete, we ship the goods to our customers, who may be either domestic or […]

  • FTZ EXPORTING

    Question: When exporting merchandise from FTZ to Canada, aside from a 7512 TE if we want to move the merchandise in bond, are there other CBP export reporting requirements? Exporter of Record documentation as opposed to Importer of Record?? ==========

  • RECEIVING DAMAGED GOODS INTO FTZ

    Question:       We had a container arrive at our FTZ with a hole in the roof.  About 80% of the product is soaking wet, and most of the cartons have disintegrated so we cannot scan them.  We are looking at 3 options:        1.       To manually receive the goods     […]

  • AES FOR FTZ EXPORTS

    Question: We just made our facility an FTZ.  Question:  is it possible to comingle goods withdrawn from the FTZ for transportation & exportation with non-FTZ goods on an export shipment (i.e. a single Air waybill or ocean bill of lading)?  If so, I’m wondering about AES filing, as the FTZ # gets input at the […]

  • FTZ Signage

      Question: We are going to be implementing a FTZ in the next few months and are currently working on getting our signage made to inform people that they will be entering the zone and must abide by the regulations under 18 U.S.C. 549. Could anyone please give some suggestions: -What size the sign should […]

  • FTZ Signage

      Question: We are going to be implementing a FTZ in the next few months and are currently working on getting our signage made to inform people that they will be entering the zone and must abide by the regulations under 18 U.S.C. 549. Could anyone please give some suggestions: -What size the sign should […]

  • CUTTING YOUR OWN IT FOR FTZ’S

      Question:   If anyone uses Integration Point software to cut IT bonds themselves from a rail destination to their FTZ, can you please contact us.  We are trying to determine if we would like to have a 3rd party manage our IT bond process (they are requesting and exorbitant fee for this) or get […]