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 […]
I work for a public organization with manufacturing in 5 countries and software development in 4 countries. Our $750M sales are in nearly 100 different countries. We are governed by a code of ethics. I am the 4th level down from the Senior Vice President Supply Chain. He and the 2nd level Director (my bosses […]
A company where a friend works has the following problem. . . Company “A” imports parts from their affiliate company in Mexico, Company “B”. The parts come in returnable packaging (totes) and are supplied to a third company Company “C”. Company “C” uses the parts and sends pallets of the returnable totes back to Company […]
We received the following message from a Statistician at the US Dept of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics “I have attached a list of the import HTS numbers and descriptions of the product categories we are interested in tracking for the Import Price Index. I need to know who to contact for the product and price […]
Our affiliate in the Netherlands wants to sell product to a company in Iran. We, and our affiliate, are owned by a French company. I am fully aware of the OFAC Sanction on Iran and am not thoroughly excited about this prospect or selling to Iran, even though the product is not of US-origin. These […]
Can anyone point me to any info assembled on company laptops and PCs (for the company employee’s use) shipping as freight, separate from the employee? I’m interested in the proper use of exceptions – BIS has a grid that defines a number of exceptions allowable in 1 year time frames, but I’m interested in how […]
We have a new customer in Australia that will be occasionally sending items back to U.S. for repair. Notes: These items are duty free in U.S. & AU. Most items sent back to U.S. for repair will be serialized. These goods are not of U.S. origin. There are a couple of scenarios that may come […]
