QUESTION: My EU entity is purchasing equipment directly from an unrelated US supplier. The US entity is arranging for, and paying for the transportation on behalf of our EU partner. I am arguing that the US supplier is the USPPI because they are the ones receiving the benefit of the export transaction. I also say […]
QUESTION: I’ve checked the answers database, finding no similar question I am wondering if any members know if it’s possible via one’s ACE account to amend and existing ITN. Is it true that only the original filer can amend the EEI? What if the FF who performed original filing is no longer in business–how would […]
QUESTION: From an ACE report – AES 203, I found multiple instances where the USPPI was not my company but the USPPI ID Number was our IRS#. These shipments definitely have no connection to us. I was hoping that there is a source I can go to with the ITN # to learn more about […]
QUESTION: A US supplier is selling equipment to our European entity with INCO terms of FCA (US crating facility). The Europe entity is then selling the equipment to our corporate JV partner. The European entity wants the US entity to arrange transport of the goods from the crating facility to the final overseas destination. […]
Question: My company currently does all of our own record keeping for export shipments. We have many domestic orders that are sold to a domestic customer but shipped overseas. These are mostly drop shipped to the domestic customers freight forwarder. Because we know that an export will be done we still run denied parties screening […]
Question: We are a US company with multiple global business units. The foreign units are established as legal entities in the countries in which they reside. One of the foreign business units buys equipment from a non-related-US-manufacturer. When the order is completed, the US manufacturer sends the inventory to a 3rd party warehouse facility located […]
Question: We purchased a CNC milling machine classified under 2B001 domestically from a Japanese-owned company. The machine is originally from Japan. We are now exporting to our Indian division. The Japan manufacturer’s US company, whom we purchased the machine from, applied for the export license showing our Indian company as the consignee. Our company, the […]
Question: We are a storage and repackaging facility and manage inventory of our client. If the client tells us to ship their goods to a certain destination we perform the task. However, something came up and the client, who owns the goods and causing the export, wants my company (storage/repacker) to be the USPPI […]
Question: Scenario: Foreign Buyer (FPPI and Ultimate Consignee) purchases goods from a US Vendor. FPPI controls the movement of the cargo and instructs US Vendor to ship the goods to a US Warehouse unrelated to US Vendor. The US Warehouse is used by a related US company of the Foreign Buyer. The goods will be […]
Question: Who is the USPPI in this domestic U.S. delivery scenario?….. Our German subsidiary sells Product X to a German customer (transaction #1). Product X will be supplied from our U.S. factory. The German customer wants Product X delivered directly to their U.S. subsidiary, where the product will be tested for compatibility (but not modified) […]
Question: We have a routed transaction in which we, the USPPI is shipping product to Houston and the foreign buyer in Brazil will be responsible for main carriage and import into Brazil. They will be appointing a US agent to handle the export and will provide us with a copy of the POA issued to […]
Question: We submitted a comment/question regarding “Foreign Company’s US location as USPPI” to Census via their blog. I have been told that the foreign company’s US location can act as USPPI in the past by one person at Census, and told by another person at Census that there must be 50 different AES filings completed […]
