Question: My company is a retailer. We buy and make women’s apparel. We purchase apparel and import our products to sell in our retail stores throughout the U.S. We also sell our product online in U.S and Canada. We are looking to start selling on EBay and Amazon. Is there any one who knows if […]
Question: We would like to hear how the membership handles valuation/classification of upgraded items. In our business it is common for our customers to send parts back to us for repair (both warranty and non-warranty). Once in a while it is a part which we repair and upgrade before we send it back. By upgrade, […]
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 […]
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? […]
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? ===========
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: […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Question: What documents have you seen/used as backup to a duty bill for DDP shipments when not billing the importer of record? Do you know how the express companies bill DDP? *************
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? **********
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 […]
