Question: We offer Drug Discovery Services that provide testing and analyzing services of unknown chemical compounds, biologics, and blood samples which are shipped to and from our customers globally. For Intellectual Property Rights reasons, our customers don’t want to provide specific details on the samples for proper importation and exportation. How do you handle the […]
Question: We import some products that have solid wood covers. The imported goods fall under Chapter 85. When will the Lacey Act requirements apply to our products?
Question: Question for the membership – We have temp recorders that travel with our ocean freight and we are trying to figure out the correct way to bring those in. Here’s some of the options we’ve come up with: 1) Declare the temp recorders on the commercial invoice and include the value with the value […]
Question: Now that Obama has put a hold on new legislation, how does this effectthe implementation of the Lacey Act? I keep checking the Federal Register daily, and still have not seen the “final rule” on the implementation schedule dates and HTS numbers? Did I miss it? Hopefully our attorney members can shed some light […]
Question: Need some advice… How do companies in the membership handle cases where subsidiaries want to transact business in an embargoed country? My particular case is of salesperson working in the UK, who reports back to a person in the US. They want to do business with parties in Iran with product mfg in Europe […]
Has anyone received info from Agriculture, that maybe I have overlooked, regarding how we are to report (if at all) products made of MDF? We are finding that some of theMDF that we purchase is made from up to over 100 different species of softwood. Hopefully there are exemptions in cases like this. What possible […]
My company has been shipping parts to Mexico for years. Our parts are exported in re-usable packaging. We now have a shipment at the border this is being held because our customer does not have a “permit” to import the product in the reusable packing. The issue is not the part but the physical packaging. […]
I work for a large company that owns many smaller companies. Each company imports under their own Tax ID, import number, and Customs Bond. We bought company A about 5 years ago, we never got involved in their imports, their processes continued seamlessly. We recently sold Company A. Their tax ID, importer number, and import […]
If you import and item that is outside the Lacey Act, like an electronic article (Chap 85) which has a printed paper user manual (Chap 49), are we safe to assume that we have nothing to worry about since Chap 49 has not been mentioned any of the upcoming Chapters that will be enforced, even […]
Is there a public list of all importers that are federally licensed to import firearms? If so, where?
If you read the Lacey Act closely it states that all these new “import” requirements also apply to exports.We are so engrossed with preparing for the new requirements that many of the “blurbs” sent out by various attorneys merely mention the new Lacey Act requirements for importers.Does anyone know who Census or Customs is going […]
My leadership consistently asks for industry averages for processing time of licenses through Dept. of State and agreements through Dept. of State. While everyone calculates differently I am looking for the basic from point of request for a license or agreement to the DoS approval. How many days on the average? No need to identify […]
