Question:We are a US Importer of apparel. We may be working with a contractor in theIndian Region. We want an onsite person dedicated to our account/productionto monitor orders (work in process) and provide QC services. We would paythe contractor for this dedicated person and then in turn they would pay thedesignated person assigned to these […]
Question:My company provides services to foreign flagged ships in various ports of call. We will sell them bunker fuel and facilitate ship stores and personnel changes. I am wondering if there is anyone else in the membership that can give me an idea of how detailed we need to get in our Screening process. Should […]
Question:We have a supplier who is not legally set up to export certain items from China that we purchase from them. To better “service” us, they use sub-contractors to ship these items to us. I see several problems with this, even aside from the fact they the supplier cannot legally export these items. 1. We […]
Question:Fellow warriors of the ICPA tribe, I was wondering what members are doing to report the square meters required by heading 3919, are you: a) Doing the calculations for each SKU? b) Using a standard unit ( i.e, 0.0001 M2/lbl)? c) Something else? I’m in telecommunications, and our labels are very small. I’d rather not […]
Question:Currently we ship repairs back to our factories daily, and the shipment consist of different items and RTV#s. When items are ready to be sent back to us, they are shipped together depending on what is already repaired and available to ship. These shipments are normally sent via Courier, with the shipper’s declaration of repair […]
Question: I would like to ask those members that have set up a bonded warehouse what the timeframe was for the application to be processed and accepted by CBP
Question: Has anyone been experiencing any problems loading DSP-5 applications on D-Trade? Over the last month or so, I’ve been having to submit a single applicationmultiple times. What happens, is in the middle of the upload it will stopand/or freeze and then I get an error message. Sometimes, I will upload thenallow me to enter […]
Question: I opened our ITRAC CD today and it is labeled with our company’s name. However, when I looked at the data on the CD it was not our data, but another importers. Has this happened to anyone else? What did you do with the other importer’s data?
Question:Can any of the members provide an international conversion size chart for wearing apparel and footwear?
Question: Does any of the membership have any generic ATA Carnet trainingpresentations they could share from conferences or seminars?
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Question:I was wondering if the membership is seeing an increase in MRU holds,VACIS exams and USDA especially on the west coast. ******************************************************************
