QUESTION: I would like to ask the community if there’s a best practice regarding visibility to your Importer of Record number. Do you treat it as sensitive information and keep it confidential from the supplier/factories you import from. For example, ISF form templates normally require IOR number for the importer, but should that be completed […]
QUESTION: Can a foreign branch of a company act as the importer of record at destination, even if the foreign branch does not own or take delivery of the goods? The foreign goods will be shipped direct to the destination buyer. We wanted to ship DAP using the foreign branch as the IOR, for tax […]
QUESTION: Company A in Australia Company B in US, related to Company A Company C in US, un-related to A & B Company D in US, un-related to A, B, and C Company C purchases item from Company B. Company D purchases item from company C. Item is located in Australia, Company C wants Company […]
QUESTION: I have the following situations that I need assistance with Company A – US Company Company B – US Company Company C – UK Company Situation 1 Company A has a PO set up with Company C and will from time to time purchase from them directly and will cover transportation from the UK […]
QUESTION: Has any member heard of this Vendor Importer of Record Program? To me it seems like a hybrid of shipping methods; however, one of our vendors is introducing it as a First Sale for Export Rule (FSFE). We are currently entering into our own First Sale Program and working with a well-known and highly […]
QUESTION: We want to contract with a company whose overseas site will prepare and send patient trial kits to their US warehouse. The US warehouse will manage the US supply of these kits on our behalf. We have similar instances with other companies who act as IOR, which is preferred by us. On the first […]
QUESTION: My company has two smaller wholly owned subsidiaries with their own IOR numbers that do a small amount of importing. Currently they handle all of their own HTS classification, valuation, record keeping, etc. The thought is to start importing all of this product in under the main corporate IOR Number for better import controls. […]
QUESTION: Our company will be undergoing a merger and we will have our company and a dba with the same IRS#. How do we assign a suffix? Does the IRS assign this or do we assign and advise the IRS? =========== Answers: You assign the suffix. Why do you feel the need for a suffix, […]
QUESTION: My company exported a shipment to a country that does not require an export license but we filed AES due to value over $2500. When it arrived at destination, the ultimate consignee cannot clear customs because they are not legally bonded. They needed a 3rd party company whom they purchased from to clear customs. […]
QUESTION: I have recently been informed by my Canada/into USA broker that 15 shipments from our vendor in Canada to us in the USA were erroneously cleared under the vendors name. This broker also does clearance work for this vendor. The documents clearly state the correct terms of sale and who the importer of record […]
QUESTION: Has anyone in the ICPA community explored the use of a 3rd party importer of record (IOR) service provider in countries (outside of the US) where your company does not have a presence and your in-country customer does not want to be – or cannot be – the IOR? This IOR service provider would […]
QUESTION: Our company was acquired by a new company. A 3rd party filed the change name with CBP but it was discovered the IOR Name and Address associated with certain IOR# is incorrect. It is a valid name and address of a different entity but it has a different IOR#. My questions are: What is […]
