Question: Typical Sales transaction from US to EU: USA group company A sells to UK group company B, then UK Company B sells to Customer C in Germany. When drop shipping from A to C, we ask a freight forwarder to switch commercial invoice upon arriving at destination for destination import clearance. Company B […]
Question: I’d like to get the membership feedback on the idea of consolidating multiple free trade agreement forms into one. We export parts to S. Korea, Mexico, Canada, Chile and Australia that are manufactured by many different suppliers. Is it OK to combine the certificate of origin forms from multiple FTA’s into one […]
Question: Does anyone have insight or experience on how to govern non production shipments (i.e. Equipment moving from office to office-outside of normal sales/manufacturing flows). How does your company control or monitor these types of moves. For example when employee 1 ships internationally to colleague 2 without realizing there is a border? How […]
QUESTION: We use INCOTERMS 2010 with most of our international transactions and we have a question about inventory recognition with one of our agreements. On occasion we use “FCA Seller’s Facility (INCOTERMS 2010). Title to all goods purchased hereunder shall pass to the Buyer upon Buyer’s acceptance of the goods.” With […]
Question: Scenario: We’re looking at consolidating goods ultimately destined for Canada with goods bound for the US (to take advantage of our US volumes, lower rates and more efficient supply chain). Bring them into a bonded facility in the US, deconsolidate, make entry on the US goods, then move the Canada destined goods in-bond […]
Question: I would like to ask the membership if they can confirm if so called “start- up” costs to projects for capital equipment purchases would be dutiable. Here is the scenario: US company agrees to pay foreign supplier “x” amount of money for equipment and makes advance payments to the foreign […]
Question: Does anyone have the latest update as to how to handle residue returning to the US? Will only brand new railcars be considered empty? Will a railcar washed out with water be considered empty upon its return to the US? What about small amounts of specks left in the railcar? When is […]
Question: I’m getting requests for the following for our shipments to South Korea. Does anyone in the membership know anything about the trade agreement? US Preferential under FTA rule: This is most essential one in order to achieve duty exemption benefit under KR-US FTA, please check and confirm if all parts you supply is […]
Question: We are just finishing up improvements to our import compliance program – manuals, SOPs, trainings, monthly audits, risk assessment, Self Testing, etc. Part of that work was driven by our Import Profile. We now want to focus our attention on the export program. Is anyone aware of a way to generate […]
Question: Has anyone in the membership ever had to complete a Commodity Flow survey for the Census Bureau? We just received one and I had never seen it before.
Question: When your company ships laptops out of the country (not hand-carried), do you list the freeware software on the customs invoice or leave it off altogether? I assume it would not need to be listed but would like to know best practice. **********
Question: When your company ships laptops out of the country (not hand-carried), do you list the freeware software on the customs invoice or leave it off altogether? I assume it would not need to be listed but would like to know best practice. **********
