QUESTION: Can a forwarder mark-up broker fees if the grantor waives the requirement in 19 CFR 111.36(c), including its subparts and authorizes the forwarder to transmit its bill for services including brokerage charges and fees? ========== Answers: There is no legal authorization for “the grantor” to waive a Customs regulation. ========== A broker can charge […]
QUESTION: A U.S. company A purchases domestically widgets from a U.S. supplier B. U.S. Supplier imported the widgets from Foreign Supplier C. Foreign Supplier C is 50% or owned by an OFAC SDN. Is there any compliance concern for Company A if it has knowledge about the original manufacturer and its ownership? Company B I […]
QUESTION: CBP notified us that our company would be placed on sanctions due to an unpaid bill. However, they had cashed our check (and we had their endorsement) 3 months prior to this notification. Once I proved this to the CBP officer, he agreed payment was received, but required us to pay additional interest of […]
QUESTION: Can a company legally write off Customs duties and tariffs without a drawback process? **************** Answers: This sounds like more of an accounting question than an import compliance question. But my thought is that duties are an expense deductible from taxable income, and that drawback would be income to offset any deduction. *************** Companies generally […]
QUESTION: Is anyone aware of any trade restrictions preventing routing trucks through Russia? The product is not from a Russian company. It would only route through Russia. With the understanding that Social & security concerns are different subjects. ************** Answers: I am not sure what “ With the understanding that Social & security concerns are different subjects” […]
QUESTION: Can someone confirm who has authority to issue a commercial invoice? My company, in the US, issue’s a PO to our manufacturer overseas and then has the order shipped direct to our buyer who is in Indonesia. Our buyer advised Indonesia Customs requires the commercial invoice to be issued by the manufacturer since it […]
QUESTION: What is the best way to find out what penalties we’ve paid to Customs in the past without doing a FOIA? Would our brokers have the same knowledge? Would the surety companies have a list of what has been issued in the past? I just started at a company and am being told that […]
QUESTION: Items of NCV or FOC must be shown with value on the Commercial Invoice; however, do their total values have to be added into the total Commercial Invoice value at the bottom of the Commercial Invoice? %%%%%%%%%% ANSWERS: Yes, It is Customs Regulation that you start with the invocie value notated as I.V. then your […]
QUESTION: We submitted a Protest for a duty refund, and CBP approved the Protest over a year ago. The duty refund was never received. What is the best way to get CBP to confirm that a check was sent, and if so, was it ever cashed? ========== Answers: You can request a report of refunds […]
QUESTION: We sell a product to a company in Canada but they have us ship to their USA warehouse for compiling into a finished unit, which they then export. Since this is a export sale, we handle as if it is an export, doing all the denied party etc. and doing the export invoice, Canada […]
QUESTION: We requested reliquidation of a large drawback entry and once we got the bill from CBP, we paid the bill via check directly from our bank. CBP cashed the check within 2 weeks of the check date. Fast forward 3 months, and suddenly CBP is contacting us that if the bill isn’t paid WITH […]
QUESTION: Can our US-based company with offices in CN arrange for shipment of CN-manufactured cases of desiccant pads to TR? Can anyone advise of any specific tariffs or sanctions that would be an issue? ****************** Answers: There is not a lot of detail in your email. I assume TR is Turkey. It sounds like a […]
