Although it would be a business decision, does any of the membership have any sort of policies to invoice your customers for ISPM15 pallets for all export shipments? In every other company I’ve worked for we’ve never done this; it was just a cost of doing business. However, I’ve noticed on the majority of our […]
Currently, a shipment from one of our Apparel factories has been Detained. Since the detention, 2 other shipments, from this same factory were released! Have any of the members had a similar experience where goods from a detained factory were released? and were Notices of Re-Delivery ever issued on the released shipments?
Our Company import quiet a bit of containers from overseas and this is the first time that we actually come across a damaged container. Per the Freight Forwarder, we will only received 30% of the salvage value and we will need to re-file the remaining balance at a later time. Because this is a liability […]
Has anyone heard of a declaration letter required by the government of Ecuador which a manufacturer has to prepare to guarantee the quality of the goods produced? Nobody has heard of this requirement and the shipment has been held up for over a month because of this declaration. If anyone has a sample of such […]
As an importer, can we have our own filer code and still use the services of a Customs Broker who would use our filer code on the entries they clear for us?
I am currently in a battle with one of our divisions – over which I only have tangential influence – regarding our SDNL screening obligations. In my opinion, the law is very clear that we are forbidden from doing business with entities that have been named on the SDNL and that, as such, we must […]
Good morning, I was wondering if anyone (especially retailers) would be willing to show any comments on how their company is handling the rising cost of fuel. Are you increasing the cost of your product(s) to cover this additional cost? If not, what is being done to help cover the costs?
Can anyone in the membership provide some guidance as to how they investigate whether a product they are purchasing is subject to a patent or not? We check all of our products to see whether they are subject to Intellectual Property Rights, but we don’t have a review for patents. We’ve ran into some issues […]
Does anybody know what the average DSP-5 application processing times are for The United Kingdom and Australia?
As of this past Friday, our company is in an uproar over the REACH regulations. It was thought that we had until November 1st to make sure all chemicals/materials would be pre-registered with REACH. As of Friday, we were told that the regulations will be retroactive to June 1st. We’ve now been told we have […]
Has anyone in the membership had the situation when drop shipping from a vendor to a customer where term was FOB Origin to the customer and prepaid and add to the vendor. The vendor uses their own trucks to deliver; delivery was attempted but customer was closed when driver arrived. Driver returned cargo back to […]
We are trying to establish GAAP principles in relation as to when to place imported goods into inventory. Assuming we had ExWorks terms where we choose the carrier and pay the freight, can we, if agreed to in our contract with the seller, take ownership and title at the given point of our choice? For […]
