QUESTION: We ship small pack from overseas to the US via FCA. We pay the freight. We want to switch from one small pack carrier to another, from A to B. when we explained this to one of our vendors we were advised that they have an exclusive agreement with A and that it was […]
QUESTION: I am wondering if anyone can have any guidance as far as record keeping/compliance from the US side for a drop ship program my company will begin undergoing in the near future. Our sister company will be producing material in one country, and we will directly dropship it CIF to a port in Mexico. […]
QUESTION: A piece of test equipment unit is imported into the US from a UK supplier for review by a US company under a Carnet issued to UK supplier. The US company wants to buy the unit and keep it permanently in the US. Is there a way to keep the unit in the US […]
QUESTION: In an official CBP audit, would Section 321 entries be part of the CBP audit pool? If so how would CBP pull this in if they are on manifest releases? ========== Answers: Considering that CBP still accepts paper manifests on the northern land border for Section 321, CBP cannot possibly collect the data on […]
QUESTION: I’m interested to see how the membership tracks its Section 321 transactions. Does your broker provide you with some type of reporting? And if anyone uses an express courier, how do you work with them to track these types of transactions? ========== Answers: Understand that 321 entries are not typically tracked in any government […]
QUESTION: A piece of test equipment unit is imported into the US from a UK supplier for review by a US company under a Carnet issued to UK supplier. The US company wants to buy the unit and keep it permanently in the US. Is there a way to keep the unit in the US […]
QUESTION: Can anyone share the lighthearted “Clearing Santa” trade compliance themed email from the last several years? ================ ANSWERS: http://www.icpainc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Santas-ruling-letter.pdf %%%%%%%%%% http://www.icpainc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CBP-Position-on-Clearing-Santa-12-2010.pdf
QUESTION: I work for an importer/corporation who files their own entries remotely. Do we need to file a triennial report on behalf of the Corporation since process entries and we have our own filer code? ========== Answers: No. Unless the corporation has a customs broker license it does not file the triennial report. Any entity […]
QUESTION: Would a foreign customer that has a US Tax ID automatically be considered the USPPI in an export transaction or are there certain circumstances that need to be met and if so, what would they be? Per the regulations, I would understand they would automatically be considered the USPPI as they are the […]
QUESTION: Does any of the members have access/link to the actual Morocco tariff schedule, either in English or Arabic? I’m looking for country specific chapter/section notes. ==================== ANSWERS: http://www.douane.gov.ma/web/guest/tarif#http://www.douane.gov.ma/tarif/tarif/init.jsf? ==================== Hello, I have access to Morocco’s HTS information but unable to pull it all together as I would have to do one chapter […]
QUESTION: A representative of a Russian distributor of our product was meeting with our sales team today. I was invited in to the discussion and it turns out to be quite a complicated, actually suspicious, supply chain. During the conversation the sales person pulled up the sales information and said that one of the […]
QUESTION: A vendor asked us if it was okay to invoice us in euro. I replied that invoicing in USD is preferred from a trade compliance standpoint because it improves the chances of the accuracy of the USD amount we claim at the time of entry. I explained the process of identifying the date […]
