Miscellaneous

Question: If a company considers using the Buy in America program, what are the pitfalls that they would have to make sure they address in participating in this program.

I’ve been asked to set up a graduate practicum in conjunction with an local university based on global compliance/supply chain. Any ideas of a project that would be both interesting and valuable?

QUESTION: We are considering importing electric fireplaces and mantels. The product is CSA certified and bares the CSA mark. This is the Canadian counterpart for United Laboratories. The supplier is telling us that we can import this product having met CSA requirements without any problems. I am uneasy with this because our own office phones […]

Does the membership have experience with a distributor asking if we include U.S. territories, possessions, and military FPOs when we say “United States” in the agreement. I suspect there may be import implications to our allowing sales to be made in U.S. territories, possessions, and military FPOs. Can you help me understand the impact of […]

I need the advice of my fellow trade compliance colleagues who utilize outside legal counsel for issues related to import/export compliance. My company has had a long term (over 7 years) relationship with a firm. We’ve used this firm for assistance with prior disclosures, representation during a Customs audit, and ruling requests. We’ve also used […]

Does any member have a checklist of compliance, import/export questions your company uses for negotiations/sales contracts that you would be willing to share?

We are currently shipping product from China to the UAE. Our products are marked with “Made in China” on the shipping cartons as well as the individual boxes (retail item). Our customer is not the ultimate consumer but will sell the products to a building contractor after importation. Apparently in the UAE, they do not […]

Can someone please give a breakdown of what the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is? Asked on 08.31.2007 http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/drnaics.htm

I am trying to go through our entry information. I have the ITRAC information from customs as well as paper copies to match up. Within the paper documents I have found some imports under a different tax id number (field 12 of the 7501) but with us as the “Importer of Record Name and Address” […]

Can someone please give a breakdown of what the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is?

I am trying to go through our entry information. I have the ITRAC information from customs as well as paper copies to match up. Within the paper documents I have found some imports under a different tax id number (field 12 of the 7501) but with us as the “Importer of Record Name and Address” […]

We are about to import a knitted garment that was previously classified as 6110.30.3059. The previous shipments were manufactured in Australia thus quota did not apply. I also have ruling # NY M84833 on this style and Customs ruled this garment was not constructed by that particular manufacturer as per note 6. Customs also mistakenly […]