Miscellaneous

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: 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 […]

Question: Currently we receive multiple vendors parts shipped from our parent company in Japan (the parent company is the seller of the goods to us). Subsequently we are currently using a single MID code that is associated with our parent company for entry purposes. We do show the proper two digit origin code for each […]

Question: I would like to know what other companies do in terms of screening export transactions made to individuals for goods sold over the internet? Is screening done at all?  If so, what level of screening is done? The transactions are not commercial shipments, but relatively low value shipments of an uncontrolled retail product to […]

Question: We are a small (only 6 employees) US-based subsidiary (a wholesale distributor) of our Parent Company in South Korea. Our Parent Company imports US-Produced material into Korea, and they have a Cert. of Origin from the Producer in the United States for that material. The Korean company then “rolls up” the US-Produced material onto […]