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 […]
Question: Has anyone ever been asked by their forwarder for permission to send a copy of the US Customs Entry to their sister office in TW. The request came stating: When the said shipment was exported last Friday, the total quantity/invoice amount was short declared to Taiwan customs. So we need US customs import entry […]
Question: Can anyone assist with how to obtain rates of duty for importing into Tunisia? We have a tariff # we are exporting and know the country of origin however after a search in Google efforts have been nil. Can anyone assist? *********** Answers: Sign up for the World Trade Organization Tariff Online Analysis tool. […]
Question: We need to import a product that is a trade secret, and we want to avoid others knowing the product itself, the fact that we are the importer, and the volume at which we are importing. I know this can be done, but I’d like to hear some practical experience from the membership. ********** […]
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 (U.S.-based) is building an e-commerce website for a wholly-owned non-U.S. subsidiary. This sub sells a software product to individual, commercial, and university users. We offer a free demo version that expires after a 30-day trial period. The user can then purchase a permanent version that is unlocked with a license key. The […]
Question: We are shipping network equipment (switches, routers, etc) to our division in India for a network upgrade. Along with the physical equipment, our IT department wants to bill India for the software licenses that apply to the products, but we are not physically shipping the licenses. They want to provide a commercial invoice listing […]
