Question: How does the membership handle simple mail shipments to colleagues in other countries? Do you do a denied parties screen? Do you make employees create an invoice? If so, how would you come up with a dollar value for a shipment of documents or goods where an accurate value cannot be determined? ************
Question: In past years, UAE and Qatar have been seizing defense articles and in some case, detaining the passengers who carried PPE. Has anyone had success in getting permission from UAE or Qatar to hand-carrying PPE (personal protective equipment — body armor and gas masks) through Dubai and Doha airports on the way to Iraq […]
Question: Under current process, our UK company sells material to our US and CAcompanies. The US and CA manage and obtain all profit, etc. from allsales to further US customers. The only transaction between the UK and the USor CA is an intercompany sale of material. Today, the US and CA own materialswith the sale. […]
Question:Some of our foreign customers submit payment via a wire transfer that goesthrough the Federal Reserve in New York. Are we required to screen the bankswhere the wire transfer originated? If we do screen, and we find a match whatshould our process be? Because the payment is coming via a wire transfer wecan’t stop the […]
Question:I have been asked to do a presentation pertaining the basics of importing. Easy to do by any standards, however here is my predicament. We import finished goods from many regions, but the procurement department (ingredients) of the company does not import but rather purchases foreign ingredients under a domestic transaction. The domestic vendor […]
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: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
