Question: If anyone in the membership has a template for filing a 520D, can you please provide? I am looking for an excel spreadsheet with the required fields and data and the cover sheet as well. ========== Answer: Please find attached. Provided by our local port. Additionally, our local port does request copies of the […]
Question: I am being asked to provide an Export Trade Control Order (Japanese regulation) certificate for a certain product. While I’m able to find information online about the Japanese Export Trade Control Order, I’m unable to find any information related to a certificate pertaining to this order. I’m also unable to find any examples. The […]
Question: I’m not familiar with master bill of ladings and house bill of ladings and don’t quite understand them. A supplier shipped 3 containers under one commercial invoice. All containers departed on the same vessel. The shipment ended up being booked under 3 separate master bills and therefore my broker is telling me that 3 […]
Question: Our company fully integrates commercially available laptops into our finished product, i.e., they do not plug into the external electricity distribution system of the country where we deploy them, nor do they connect the PSTN/fiber optic network. The laptop monitors and measures the performance characteristics and of the product only. The data is taken […]
Question: We have seen a couple of times recently where we are notified in transit that the quantity ordered, booked and shown on the bill of lading is not the quantity that shipped for some reason. Then when we push back to get them to correct documents to what actually shipped so we can clear […]
Question: Good morning, I was wondering if anyone in the group would be able to send a copy of the following court case from 1977? Ideal Toy Corp. v. United States, 78 Cust. Ct. 28, 34, C.D. 4688 (1977) ************* Answers: The question that the US Customs Court addressed in this case in 1977 was […]
Question: Hello, I`d like to run the following scenario by the membership seeking suggestion about how this can be handled in accordance with regulations or would be accepted by customs: Our company has royalty agreements as well as design agreements and tooling which would be considered assists. Additional dutiable values were previously reported through […]
Question: What defines a company as the actual “Exporter”? Am I the Exporter if I ship to a foreign address under “FCA my dock” Incoterms terms? Am I the Exporter if I ship to a foreign address but am paid by a domestic customer? ========== Answers: What defines a company as the actual “Exporter”? NAFTA […]
Question: Our current internal HTS database includes an annual expiration date, however, as we migrate to a new software provider we are being asked if an actual annual expiration date is even necessary in this day and age given there are no quota visa concerns. US customs does update HTS numbers on occasion and of […]
Question: Our company is starting to qualify product that we ship to Australia for the US Australia Free Trade agreement. We have a NAFTA program in place in which we solicit our suppliers for originating items included in our bill of material or for purchased item to ensure qualification of the good for NAFTA. […]
Question: Would a 5A002.a.1 item still qualify for license exception ENC when the end user is a non “government end user” (private sector) located and headquartered in India (not listed in Supplement 3 of part 740)? Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Per CCATS, the item’s reasons for control are NS1 & AT1, and ENC […]
Question: I am having an issue where the commercial invoice that has the correct selling price is not being provided. I would like some advice on what can be done to correct this. Our US supplier purchases goods from their Mexican subsidiary and then sells to my company (US company as well). My company then […]
