QUESTION: We issue a PO to a foreign entity with terms DDP. The foreign entities US location is handling US Customs clearance based on DDP terms. From a compliance perspective, who is responsible for the information that is reported to US Customs – my company as the purchaser or their company – since they handled […]
Question:Can anyone pls give me some suggestions on how to convince our DDP vendors provide us the HTS # either on their invoice or give us a copy of the 7501 form? The problem is we never request this info (the HTS # on the products they made for us) before. We not sure whether […]
Question: Our company is shipping a device to China against a Letter of Credit. TheLC requires a “Certificate of Quantity”. Does anyone in the membership havea blank certificate of quantity that they would be willing to share? Wehave never needed one of these before. Thanks!
Question:How do other importers handle liquidation of import entries? When an entry has liquidated and passes the 5 year record retention period how do importers determine which entries to destroy? Do they have their brokers run a liquidation report or is there a better way to approach the situation? My company hasn’t imported that long […]
Question: Our company utilizes an express courier that also does the customs clearance on these shipments. The courier utilizes their own tax ID and clears the shipment acting as the importer of record and our company is listed as the ultimate consignee. My question is, what is our liability with CBP if we are simply […]
Question: Does anyone have a more recent version of the US import Guide? The one wehave is 2005 vintage.
Question: It has recently come to my attention that some of my international officesare dividing single shipments (of 10 widgets, say) into multiple shipments(5 shipments of 2 widgets each) in order to avoid customs formalities /licensure / permit requirements that would apply at destination if theshipment was sent as a single shipment. I put the […]
Question:We are currently importing product into the US without batteries. I was recently informed that we will begin inserting the batteries (4 x D’s) during production in China. Can any on advice what (if any) declarations will have to be made to US Customs or any other government agency when importing products with batteries into […]
Question:We are a US company that makes products for the food industry. We do not produce food, only components used by the food industry to manufacture and sell their products. Occasionally, we need to import food products into the US to determine how our product can be used with that particular food. We recently attempted […]
Question: Question for the membership… I was looking through the regs forestablishing an Importer number and came across a section on “freezing”, andwanted to make sure I am understanding it correctly. Is that justdesignating an alternate address than what is shown on the 5106 for customscorresopndence? If not what would be the benefit of doing […]
Question:Situation: Our Mexico and Canada subsidiaries often need to return/bring things into the US where we, the US owner, are not party to the transaction. For example – Our MX company returns empty air cylinders to the Texas vendor for the deposit money. Our Canada company sends equipment to a repair company in Ohio ( […]
Question: Are there specific countries were these types of imports would require an import license or additional information outside of typical requirements: TSCA cert’s, LOI (letter of intended use), USDA letter addressing BSE/TSE statements (in the event gelatin capsules were used to encapsulate the drug product), and the IND# (as the only valid AOC […]
