QUESTION: When constructing an MID code for a China company: 1) If the company name begins with the city, i.e. Shanghai XYZ Manufacturing Co. Ltd., should “Shanghai” be ignored for MID construction of the name, i.e. CNXYZMAN123SHA? The 7501 instructions do not address this specific situation. 2) Which three letters of the city name should […]
QUESTION: What additional controls can we put in place to ensure users do not run reports, then place on a shared site to share with others? They may be authorized to access the data, but not even realize that their report contains export controlled data. · We have controls around export controlled data – only […]
QUESTION: Recently joined a new company and need to get senior leadership buy-in for implementing a RPS process. Besides the obvious arguments (eg. fines, penalties, sanctions, good corporate citizen and negative publicity – which are not going over well) could other members offer any suggestions ? **************** Answers: Check out https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/pdfs/1641-ecp/file ************** Additional items to […]
QUESTION: Is anyone else in the membership experience delays in entry summary data on the ESM-7008 report? I’m missing a significant number of entry summary lines in my report for January 2017 activity. ========== Answer: YES! I have been experiencing delays as well, getting either errors, or empty reports. ==========
QUESTION: If we have knowledge that our US customer will export our product, are we required to screen our US Customer’s foreign customer as well? If so, please provide the regulations that supports this so I can advise my executive staff and sales staff. If we are to screen the foreign customer, what can we […]
QUESTION: I am being requested by the Accounting/Finance Department to provide reports to them from our freight partners for them to use in their accruals. As I understand the scope these reports will be used by them to review our in-transit Imports and Exports at this Quarter End. I have never had to do […]
QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have instructions for internal COO verification they would be willing to share? ========== There are various methods that can be utilized depending on the merchandise. Our company procures many manufactured items from around the world. Most of our equipment is fairly easy to confirm through a brief read of […]
QUESTION: How does the membership identify controlled products within their ERP system whether classified under ITAR or on the CCL? =================== ANSWER: Depends on the ERP. Many ERP lack adequate functionality to support Customs/Compliance (Import/Export) work. The area is, as everyone who does this knows, quite intricate and even complex. Even where the ERP does […]
QUESTION: I am having difference of opinion with our corporate office concerning the value reported for export and currency conversion. Corporate would like to issue one conversion chart to be used to determine value to be reported for export per year. As currency rates fluctuate regularly, my point is we need to be using the […]
QUESTION: My company wants to arrange a shipment from foreign country A to foreign country B. The customer in foreign country B will want to receive a certificate of origin, but we don’t want the name/address of the manufacturer in country A to appear on the certificate. How can we make this happen? Most templates […]
QUESTION: I am a novice to ERP systems, and was wondering if the membership could advise on whether their SAP or other ERP systems assist or has the mechanism to notify of a block due to an article being controlled? Does an ERP system have this capability or would this be additional software or additional […]
QUESTION: I have freight as part of my import/export compliance responsibilities and I am NOT knowledgeable in this area at all so I am looking for feedback on a situation. I have learned that we do not pass on our discounted rates when quoting customers (i.e. 22 lb. box to Chile via express courier […]
