Question: I would like to understand how other companies are labeling the outsideof their shipping cartons when the contents may have more than one countryof origin. We have a medical system that is made in the US but the monitor(which is a component of the system) is made in China. Our outsidecarton, which contains the […]
Question:I was wondering if any of the membership has a current list of the top 2000 USimporters and exporters that they would be willing to share that data? Thank you.
Question: I need to see the above referenced Public Bulletin. We are filing a remoteentry from Dallas in LA. It has been overridden for exam. The latestbulletin we have is 07-021. Customs will not send us a copy saying that itis on the CBP website. I can not find it anywhere.
Question:There are have been several discussions about the CBP meaning of “original documents” and what needs to be retained. George Tuttle forwarded a letter from CBP that works through the logic to show the electronic documents received in electronic form are in original form and can be retained in electronic form. This pretty much finished […]
Question: We have various products that domestically we implement a “protect fromfeeze” season from Oct to April, as they must be kept above a certain temp. For export, these products ship in reefers only during this protect fromfreeze season. In summer months, we do not use reefers. To date we havehad only one issue with […]
Question:Our parent company – ‘Company Name Inc.’ Our international selling entity (a sub of parent) – ‘Company Name International, Inc.’ Our international marketing and support services company (a sub of parent) – ‘Company Name International Services, Inc.’ I work for ‘Company Name International Services, Inc’ (for tax purposes) and have Customs POA from parent company […]
Question: I would like to ask the membership a question pertaining to theCircumstances of Sale, specifically the “All Costs Plus Profit Method”.This states, “If it is shown that the price is adequate to ensurerecovery of all costs plus a profit which is equivalent to the firm’soverall profit realized over a representative period of time (e.g., […]
Question: I would like some suggestions on the best way to monitor visitors to a foreign subsidiary to determine DOC licensing requirements.
Question:Non-logistics mgmt believes we should be able to flatbed containers after port LA booked discharge to midway or farther cross-country D/C, and return empty to nearest CY railhead where specific carrier does maintain box stock or normally receives return of empty MLB boxes. This as alternative to transloading into standard trailer. Beyond saving at most […]
Question: We are producers of chemicals subject to TSCA and plastics which are not subject to TSCA and some chemicals are subject to DEA. This Customs Bulletin and Decision Vol 43, No 28, July 17, 2009 has caught us by surprise, which will require all empty rail cars, trucks, iso containers, etc that contain “any” […]
Question: Our company just purchased the patents and assets of another company (they keep their tax id). We are in the process of evaluating and classifying their products for import/export, and they will begin using our tax id’s for their limited import and export transactions as they are migrated to our system, but I want […]
Question: Questions on RFID or GPS Tracking to reduce the cost of material in the international supply chain: Can the membership provide feedback on container tracking solutions used to reduce the supply? What are you using? Have you been able to successfully transition to more of a JIT operation?
