Miscellaneous

Question:Can anyone in the membership comment on what industry standard file format is used to get data from your brokers?  By industry standard I am referring to EDI or CATAIR, etc.?  If EDI, what record sets?  Thanks

Question:Pressurized gas cylinders (acetylene for welding, propane, methyl chloride, etc) are transported in steel cylinders which are classified as Instruments of International Trade by several rulings. By the laws of physics, these cylinders never go empty… when the pressure of the gas in the cylinder equals the atmospheric pressure, no more gas can come out. […]

Question: Has anyone heard that CVD will be removed from imports of memorycontaining Korean DRAM?

Question: How do other members in the trade community inform, train, and maintainan escalation policy?  This is in regard to how a company will react if,for example if a government agent makes an unannounced visit or an evenwhere CBP mails a Request for Information and it sent to a corporategeneral mail box.  Who is the […]

Question: Does anyone have a current template/example of a Letter of Assurance that theywould be willing to share? The LOA would be used to notify  a non-U.S. reseller/distributor of the U.S.re-export/retransfer requriements at a high level?

Question: Does anyone have a copy of the UAE tariff in English in Excel?  The onlyversion we have found on-line so far is a pdf and it isn’t even complete. 

Question: Does anyone have any information on the proposed Intra-CompanyTransfer License Exception (ICT) set forth by the BIS?

Question:Does anyone know or have a website to search or a document that tells the history of how U.S. Customs Broker’s originated? When they became licensed by the Department of Treasury? Were the original Customs Broker’s responsibilities the same as they are today? I’m putting together a presentation and have looked for information with no […]

Question:Would anyone in the membership know how I could obtain a report listing entries that have liquidated or are scheduled to liquidate? I am looking for a resource that is more reliable than the periodic Courtesy Notices I receive.

Question: If a dual use product is modified to NATO specification and the NATOstatement of work is RESTRICTED, is the product now under the jurisdictionof the State Department? 

Question: To the Membership who are in the Food Industry, Sen Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has introduced legislation called the Milk Import Tariff Equity Act, which would create tariff-rate quotas on foreign dairyproteins that currently come into the U.S. in unlimited quantities. Since2001, The national Milk Producers Federation (“NMPF”) has supported thepassage of the MITEA in […]

Question: We are making a drop shipment to the Caribbean and our customer (in theCaribbean) is asking us to make the shipment without a commercial invoice.  We would advise the carrier the value between ourselves and our customer for US export purposes but the AWB would declare NVD (No Value Declared) and NCV (No Commercial […]