I am trying to put together a presentation to upper management to try to convince them that we need to invest in actually putting together a Compliance Department for our company. We have offices in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Canada, but no set Compliance Department!! I am only one person and I cannot […]
In addition to import and export compliance, my group handles Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) activities. I have been unsuccessful in finding training seminars that address MSDS topics. Does anyone have suggestions for MSDS training? Seminars, Conferences, Online resources, etc.
We are in the process of documenting compliance areas in which we either know or suspect that we have issues or just where there are improvements that need to be made. I know some people are already cringing but the issues have to be documented not only so that they can be vetted and a […]
We are an exporter of electronic parts and currently filing in AESDirect using company employees on our shipments going to our plants in Mexico. We are interested in using only temporary workers to file our exports in AESDirect. Do any members know, if we can use temporary workers to file or they need to be […]
Question: Does anyone know where I could find the following? A few years ago I went to a DOT training for HazMat and the like. The Coast Guard did a presentation for ocean freight and had a short video clip in their presentation that showed an example of what can happen on the water. The […]
I am looking for information and learning/training material for an exporter. Material exported would be a mix of EAR and ITAR products. It has been years ( about 10 ) since I looked much at the export arena, so I need to re-learn this from scratch. I know what an SED is and denied party […]
I am wondering if anyone in the membership has bought on-line trade compliance training software in the last 12 months? If so, how many employees use it and how much did it cost. The training we are searching for is mostly geared towards export controls.
About 2-1/2 years ago our company began evaluating the tariff numbers we had used. I feel we have made significant changes and understanding. I’ve been stating my case to new management for 5 months and have finally convinced them that machine spare part is not a general tariff number. However, they don’t think we should […]
I am struggling with an issue in my company and am wondering if others have had this same problem and how they handled it. One of our divisions currently exports just under $15 million of product out of the country. The customer service team assigns CSR’s by commodity. So they have a select few CSR’s […]
