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. **********
Question: I was recently laid off from a large importer, who through a recent acquisition has discovered valuation fraud by using double invoices that internal legal has advised not to disclose to CBP. Now that I have separated from the company, is it my responsibility to make a disclosure anonymously. Legal’s reasoning is that everyday […]
Question: The recent debarments by DDTC of certain big name forwarders apply only to the listed locations. Are any other companies having internal dialogs about making business decisions not to use other locations of the forwarder (i.e. if only the Albanian location was debarred, are you considering not using their locations in Estonia also?). I […]
Question: Are any members who received FIRMS reports from CBSA finding differences between those reports and internal/broker reports ? We just received out first FIRMS and there are more than 5 % of the entries not included that we can see on internal and Broker reports. ***********
QUESTION: We haven’t received any invoices from CBP for the retro MPF increase. Has anyone else? Does anyone have any clue as to when the MPF bills will be sent to importers? ****************
