Question: Any suggestions or updates from the membership on how Trade Compliance managers should prepare their programs in light of the Trek Leather decision ? ========== Answers: I see Trek an opportunity for in-house compliance folks to hammer home the importance of compliance. You can use it with the C-suite and functional managers to reinforce […]
Question: I am hoping that the membership can advise on the following scenario. There are 3 companies: US Company 1 (US1) · Chinese Company related to US Company 1 · US Company 2 (US2) – raw material provider US1 will be issuing a purchase order for raw materials to be delivered to the Chinese company. […]
Question: Under 19 CFR 141.4 (c), undeliverable articles are exempt from entry as long as certain conditions are met, among them that ” the merchandise did not leave the custody of the carrier or foreign customs”. In instances of multi-mode transportation, where more than one carrier are handling the same shipment, how should this provision […]
Question: There was an obvious typo made by the courier upon entry. The entry summary lists the value at $126000. Throughout the rest of the documents the value is listed $12,600.00 Someone created a typo and we can’t get the courier to correct it. This caused a serious duty charge upon import, that our […]
Question: We import large electronic systems on FOB Basis. Part of the price paid or payable is a cost for a parts only warranty. We have a defected piece of equipment that needs to be replaced. Since we paid duty/tax on the warranty upon import of original system is there a way we can get […]
Question: There were no Customs Compliance people on board when an ERP was set up at my company, so one of the issues I face now is the lack of consistency/visibility to the country of origin of our finished products. One ERP material identification # can represent a finished product manufactured in one or all […]
Question: My company currently does all of our own record keeping for export shipments. We have many domestic orders that are sold to a domestic customer but shipped overseas. These are mostly drop shipped to the domestic customers freight forwarder. Because we know that an export will be done we still run denied parties screening […]
Question: Recently we have been told that our normal manifest descriptions are too generic and that we must provide more detailed information about our products. Can anyone advise if they are also receiving this types of requests for further information when booking freight overseas and what this is a result of? Is there a new […]
Question: How long does it typically take to receive a year’s worth of export information back from Census once you have sent the formal request? ========== Answers: Took us about 6 weeks ========== It didn’t take very long when I did it. Maybe a few weeks. ========== Usually just 4 weeks for a normal company, […]
Question: If you sell through foreign distributors that primarily use the same forwarder each time on a routed shipment, can you verify the POA once or (yearly) or do you have to do it on each transaction? ========== Answers: Once you have a copy of the POA or WA check to see if there is […]
Question: Can someone explain how to apply the EAR definition of “Technology” (772) and the general technology note (774) to EAR99 stuff? The EAR definition of “required” doesn’t seem to be able to be applied to an EAR99 item like it can be to a listed item. So if I have an EAR99 item, say […]
Question: If the Shipment Reference Number (SRN) was amended after the export date would this generate a new ITN? All the reference material notes a SRN can’t be reused but not whether it can be amended and changed to a new never used before SRN. I’m not asking about reusing a SRN just whether editing […]
