Import

Question: Does anyone in the membership have a process or procedure for importingon a consignment basis that they would be willing to share?

Question: My colleague and myself are US licensed customs brokers reporting to alogistics mgr with limited understanding of US Customs regs. Until recentlywe have been employed by one of the subsidiaries (“subsidiary A”) of the USholding company for an MNC, and performed compliance activities for anotherUS subsidiary (“subsidiary B”). As we have been preparing to […]

Question: A number of my friends and co-workers want to support an army squad’s desireto bring their young dog home from Afghanistan. I’ve read the newspaperstories about the extreme lengths people have gone to in the cases ofsoldiers & friends’ families doing this after a tragic loss of life, so Iknow it is possible. This […]

Question:Can the membership offer any advice/suggestions on how to arrange drop shipments via the courier/small package providers?  Our biggest challenge is ensuring the proper documentation is submitted and used for the entry (our company should be listed as IOR) but preventing our cost from reaching our end customer.   We are responsible for the import (may […]

Question:We are importing product that is sensitive to temperature. We have been advised that our freight will have thermic sheets, valued at $10 each covering each pallet over the winter season. Also included the shipment will be temperature recorders valued at $50 each that will record the temperature from the time the product leaves the […]

Question: Here is my problem. My manager is wanting me(my department) to follow up on every import we have to make sure we are declaring the proper value. In that the vendor’s invoice matches what our accounting dept is paying. For purchases this is easy to do. Now I am having an issue with returns, […]

Question: We are shutting down a facility and dispersing the equipment among our other locations. There are some forklift trucks under a lease that I have been asked to ship to a Mexico facility.  At the end of the lease, I will have to import theseforklift trucks back into the US.  These forklifts are powered […]

Question:   My company is medium-sized and does not benefit from a Global Trade Management System.  I don’t have any hope of getting one anytime soon either.  However, we do have an in-house Lean Six Sigma program and I was able to get approval to start a project on analyzing our import process.  Our number […]

Question:   We are making a drop shipment to the Caribbean and our customer (in theCaribbean) is asking us to make the shipment without a commercial invoice.  We would advise the carrier the value between ourselves and our customer for. US export purposes but the AWB would declare NVD (No Value Declared) and NCV (No […]

Question:   When requesting confidential treatment of certain manifest information to the CBP Disclosure Law Officer, how do others handle variations in your company name?  I can write the request listing our legal name and address, but as many of you know, what your company name is does not always match what is put on […]

Question:   Has anyone been reviewing and working on the MOVEMENT bill, HR2355?  This will increase HMF by 350%.  For us, that’s about 400K per year.  It seems to me that the sues of the increase are vague and ill defined.    The fund would be used for grants for eligible goods movement improvement, environmental, […]

Question: What would be the best sources to confirm current temporary import regulations applicable in different countries?