Question: Does anyone in the membership have an SOW template for managing a Customs Broker that they are willing to share? ————————————————- ANSWER: I would check with your broker as most of them have templates that they work from. If they don’t then change brokers!
Question: An U.S. company imports a product for evaluation and testing from company A in U.K. After evaluation and testing, this product will be exported to a company B in U.K. There is no work done in U.S. The product is expensive and since the VAT and duty is high in U.K, can company B […]
Question: Our broker asked us to fill out the CSMS#15-000275 for the Broker Known Importer Program. Is this program a requirement? . We have given our broker this information and guidelines already but I am reluctant to do the same with CBP via this program. ========== Answers: Nope. Not required – this is an […]
Question: Here is the scenario: US Company A sells goods to Dominican Republic Company B. Company B takes title to the goods in Miami under FCA terms. Company B then ships goods to their customer, Company C, which is based in the US Virgin Islands. Company A is not related to Company B or […]
Question: I work for a 3PL company. As a 3PL we are the outsourced supply chain for customer. We arrange transportation, store, deliver, repackage the customer’s goods. While we do have agreements in place for handling the customers goods I ask what compliance should I have given the nature of a 3PL. One aspect is […]
Question: I am looking to the group for some detailed information on the Buy American Act. I have searched the extensively and cannot find any reliable sources that give detailed regulations on the Buy American Act. One of SKU’s being analyzed for BAA qualification is a product that is assembled in the USA with a […]
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 […]
