QUESTION: We are a manufacturing company importing a carbon steel item that requires a steel mill certificate and is also eligible for Anti-Dumping Duty (ADD) upon import to the USA. Our supplier has told us only the country of origin but refuses to impart to us the required manufacturer’s name and address. What is the […]
QUESTION: For those that participate in Customs reconciliation program, have you had any issues recently with a line or lines on the entry being rejected because a protest was done? How were you able to resolve it? **************** Answers: See page 22 of the new “ACE Reconciliation External Handbook,” published August, 2020 for guidance: 2. […]
QUESTION: Can I request a liquidation extension on behalf of our related party or is that considered Custom Business? %%%%%%%%%% ANSWER: I believe you can if your position includes providing corporate oversite for that related party. Otherwise if you do not work for the related party, I would agree it is Customs business and you […]
QUESTION: Reaching out to ICPA membership to share ideas to create a trade compliance council. I’d like to create a corporate task force with the mission to assist trade compliance staff, which is very limited, to bring representation from other business groups to identify risks and help with creating process and procedures. Also, to share […]
QUESTION: Our USGR process is manual today and the commercial invoice is generated during the time we process a “return label” online via our carrier. If we itemize the CI, the commodity lines we are importing back to the US will exceeds 100+ lines. As long as all items falls under the commodity HTS code […]
QUESTION: When shipping through a third party warehouse who typically signs the commercial invoices? In our situation the warehouse is only printing the invoice, so it doesn’t feel right to ask them to sign it. We are not sure if someone in trade compliance should sign off on it, or someone on the order entry […]
QUESTION: I’d be interested to learn from the import community about their understanding of “proceeds of subsequent resale, use or disposal. Does the resale or use have to be a direct, 1 to 1 resale or can there be mixing or dilution of the imported product involved in the resale. By that I mean, you […]
QUESTION: If you are selling goods to the U.S. Navy and the goods are to be used on a naval aircraft carrier, are the goods considered to be on US soil or would they be an export while they are on the ship? The question arose during a discussion and I am curious if the […]
QUESTION: How do others in the oil and gas industries handle EAR99 software being exported into Russia? =========== Answers: Every export to Russia must have an end user declaration that filters for military use/users, denied parties and deepwater, artic and shale. Each article is screened against the EAR (CCL plus all applicable sections regarding exports […]
QUESTION: We have a HTS 9801-U.S goods return to the U.S shipment being returned from Germany and being request to provide a MRN-NR/T1 document (due to value). Can someone help/support some information on this? ========== Answers: Hello, This means that someone is requesting for an export declaration (MRN) or transit document (T1) from Germany. This […]
QUESTION: Can someone point me in the direction of regs or courier requirements regarding shipping cameras with lithium batteries inside them? One of our shipping clerks said that one of the larger couriers returned an intl package because a camera had lithium batteries in them. I recognize the danger, and have read the news accounts, […]
QUESTION: Looking for the membership to help me with a flowchart decision tree or equivalent, showing a foreign company incorporated in a non-US country, but with US ownership, and how to ensure that the product can ship with no OFAC or other types of restrictions. I am hoping for the 10% and 25% de minimis […]
