Miscellaneous

  Question: Working on a team to come up with a social media policy. Anyone willing to share theirs? Minus company name of course! Thanks in advance! ***********

  Question: Working on a team to come up with a social media policy. Anyone willing to share theirs? Minus company name of course! Thanks in advance! ***********

  Question:   We’ve been having a rash of NII exams on the west coast.  I would say probably about 60%-70% of the containers originating from Japan are being flagged for exam.  Started about a week and a half ago and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down, probably 3 out of every 5 containers […]

  Question: How are others measuring their customs broker’s performance?  Which areas are you score carding and how do you hold your brokers accountable to compliance with the metrics? *********

  Question:   Hello I am hoping someone can help. I am being asked from top management as to what % of revenue are complex companies spending on the internal Trade Compliance Team.

  Question:   I am looking for advice from the membership on screening of vessels to ensure they are not Iranian flagged. I recall recent information in the news about vessel owners using unethical practices to hide actual owners of vessels etc. We are primarily concerned about shipments from Mexico to Canada for example. They […]

  Question:   We are wondering how pharmaceutical companies handle the potential for exams on drawback entries of drug products or API? We are  asked to provide a guarantee that Customs will never open a drum of API or bulk drug product that would have to go through an exam for drawback.  

  QUESTION:   Does anyone know of a free website where all global HTS numbers and rates can be accessed?

  QUESTION:   Does anyone know of a free website where all global HTS numbers and rates can be accessed?

  Question: Scenario: Company in US purchases a product from a supplier in Indonesia. The supplier in turn contracts with several manufacturers of the product who ship to supplier’s warehouse.  The supplier prepares the product for shipment to US and invoices US Company.  The product quantity on the shipment is made up of product from […]

  QUESTION:   Would anyone be willing to share your trade team org chart?  We are looking for a team that manages all global trade. We are a North American Corp office of a 5 billion dollar company.

  QUESTION:   Would anyone be willing to share your trade team org chart?  We are looking for a team that manages all global trade. We are a North American Corp office of a 5 billion dollar company.