Miscellaneous

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Order access to foreign customers

    QUESTION: We are considering granting secure (username/password) access to our established foreign customers to enter their own orders directly into our ERP (via portal access). The order would need to be reviewed and released by our export coordinators before becoming visible to the rest of the company for production planning purposes. The customers would not […]

  • Duty savings computer software

    Question: We are contemplating First Sale and due to systems issues in capturing the duty savings, we may be forced to use Reconciliation entries as the basis to capture the duty savings, not putting it in cost of goods. For those importers using First Cost for duty base, where do you capture your duty savings?   […]

  • Form C16-CCVO

    Question: Does anyone in the membership have a copy of the Form C16 – CCVO (Certificate of Value and Origin) for exports to Nigeria that they wouldn’t mind sharing? ===========

  • Employee considered consignee for purposes of 740.6(a)(1)

    Question: We have field service reps who take our “technology” with them when they travel abroad to visit customer sites. When license exception TSR is applicable, do we need to have the employee sign the written assurance required by 740.6(a)(1)? Is the employee considered a “consignee” for purposes of this regulation? In 740.6(a)(3) it says: […]

  • Employee considered consignee for purposes of 740.6(a)(1)

    Question: We have field service reps who take our “technology” with them when they travel abroad to visit customer sites. When license exception TSR is applicable, do we need to have the employee sign the written assurance required by 740.6(a)(1)? Is the employee considered a “consignee” for purposes of this regulation? In 740.6(a)(3) it says: […]

  • Travel expenses

    Question: This is not strictly a compliance question, but does refer to compliance visits to factories. I am drawing up a travel budget that includes China. Hotel details are easy enough to figure. How about food and taxi’s? For the business traveler in Shanghai and Beijing, can you advise the average cost of decent meals […]

  • SAP vs GTS

    Question: Would like to hear from the group about the success of using the Foreign Trade features of SAP as compared to the GTS features. I understand that GTS has more to offer, but how well does the current Trade features work? In addition, can people utilize the Foreign Trade features for capturing dual sourced […]

  • ASEAN-China FTA annexes

    Question: I am reading the FTA of “ASEAN – China” from website: www.worldtrade.net/fta/. But I could not find the Annex1, Annex2. and Annex 3. Could anyone tell me where to get it? **********

  • Keeping up with global regulations

    Question: I’m interested in learning what other members of the global trade community do to keep up with regulations that change globally. In the US and Canada there are lots of available resources including daily publications in the Federal Register, etc. I’m really curious to know what resources the trade community uses for regulation changes […]

  • Field service reps traveling abroad with technology

    Question: We have field service reps who take our “technology” with them when they travel abroad to visit customer sites. When license exception TSR is applicable, do we need to have the employee sign the written assurance required by 740.6(a)(1)? Is the employee considered a “consignee” for purposes of this regulation? In 740.6(a)(3) it says: […]

  • Managing California Proposition 65

    Question: Does anyone have any suggestions for managing the requirements of California’s Proposition 65 (formally titled “The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986”)? Since there are ~800 chemicals on the list of “dangerous” chemicals, it is quite difficult for our suppliers to know if any of these chemicals are in the products. […]