Question: It is my understand that according to the US Regulations, a US Export can include technology such as an email, software or a blue print sent electronically, etc. My question is what if you had a program or software that international inter-company employees were able to access, in which the international employees had the […]
Question: Is anyone doing electronic 7512’s for export through ACE? If so, can you do it directly in ACE as an exporter or do you need some type of ABI Compatible Software for the interface. *********** Answers: All electronic 7512s must be filed in ACE, and yes, you need ABI software in order to do […]
Question: I am trying to make a strong business case and policy to get our operations team and vendor to understand and address overages and shortages . Our receiving team rarely provides a completed receiving report and the vendor (related party in China) will not comply with providing corrected invoice and pack slip. The vendor […]
Question: How do U.S. companies with a Canadian foreign subsidiary deal with the Cuba embargo and citizens of embargoed countries that work for a Canadian subsidiary? It is against Canadian law for Canadian companies to participate in the U.S. embargo against Cuba. (foreign subsidiary is incorporated in Canada) It is against Canadian law to ask […]
Question: I am looking for some best practices from those in similar situations. We are a US based company exporting to our wholly owned subsidiary office in Shanghai. We have about 30 products in our product line in which the Chinese HTS code differs dramatically from the US code. These differences are at the chapter […]
Question: We recently made a shipment of product to a Turkish Firm located in Istanbul. The product was held in Turkish Customs and we were then notified by the Customer that Turkish Customs was requesting an additional Tax Liability to be paid by the Turkish Customer. The Turkish Customer indicated that this “New” Liability is […]
Question: Our company is importing radios installed in our vehicles with potentially outdated software…in an effort to provide the most up to date software, we will offer vehicle purchasers in the US an opportunity to log onto a web-based site to upgrade the SD card up to three times as needed. As a result, we […]
Question: An item is imported into the US, the declared value to CBP is $110 ($100 for the cost of the item plus $10 for the assist value). The item breaks and gets exported from the US to the non-US supplier for repair. The item gets repaired at the non-US location at a cost of […]
Question: We are a retail corporation importing goods into various countries and looking to create a global trade management program. Importing regions include US, Germany & Japan Does anyone have a list of questions that headquarters could ask the regional offices to gain insight on their volume activity and processes? ********* Answers: This is going […]
Question: Can people share best practice for determining which senior officers to list in block 7 of the DDTC registration form. I am interested to hear if organizations list all senior officers of the parent company or some subset and if it is a subset the rationale for doing so. ************ Answers: Your Company Legal […]
Question: Our compliance team has received questions on where in the business the creating of commercial invoices and packing lists should be positioned. As our business grows this has become unclear. No one wants to claim responsibility for the actual generating of the docs. Traditionally it has been a supply chain function, but currently is […]
Question: We are a Known Shipper per the TSA KSMS and recently want to add one of our locations as a Known Shipper also. Can anyone provide the steps and process to obtain this status? ************* ANSWERS: Attention to the moderator of the messages – please, please do not allow any information to be disclosed […]
