Question: Looking for tips on how to best make a name for myself with my new company (~$500M annual sales, plants all over the globe). Can the experts advise how best to become as effective as quickly possible with the ocean and air logistics in my new company? What would be the […]
Question: Looking for tips on how to best make a name for myself with my new company (~$500M annual sales, plants all over the globe). Can the experts advise how best to become as effective as quickly possible with the ocean and air logistics in my new company? What would be the […]
Question: We are currently in the process of assisting a multinational company based in Europe with options for re-structuring its export control/compliance functions. I would be interested in hearing from in-house professionals about the “pro’s and con’s” of moving this function from the customs/import/operations side to the in-house legal or compliance shop. One […]
Question: We’re a US company with extreme interest in our US trade compliance as well as that for our subsidiaries in the countries where they operate. We’re looking to develop a formal group that would meet at least quarterly to review, discuss and strategize company trade compliance opportunities and its facilitation (ie, […]
Question: Is anyone aware of an studies, research or benchmarking surveys conducted that provide information on trade compliance org charts, size and structure of trade compliance departments vis-a-vis total value of imports and total number of entries per year? We are looking into justifying increase in headcount. We have three people handling 5,000 entries and […]
Question: I was wondering if feedback could be provided. Currently I am the trade compliance manager for all goods coming and going from the USA. Our goods of low risk and compliance procedures are in place. Since I have done this for the USA, there are folks in my company that are hinting for me […]
Question: Is anyone aware of any benchmarking studies reflecting the average size of an import compliance organization in relationship to the number of U.S. imports and the average size of the export organization in relationship to the number of U.S. exports? Additional information of interest is how many of each of these groups do transactional […]
uestion:We have a subsidiary in the United Kingdom that was relying on our UK based freight forwarder to do their logistics and Customs classification (based on the HTS we provide on the invoices) and consequently, filing the entry on behalf of our European office. I am concerned with this type of structure, since we are […]
Question:Would anyone in the membership be able to provide feedback for what they look for when hiring a compliance position in Mexico? Is it unreasonable to expect a candidate to have knowledge with areas such as Mexico import law and regulations, NAFTA, HTS classification,and recordkeeping? For the candidates I’ve interviewed none have this experience. They […]
QUESTION: Do any members have presentations they’re willing to share which Trade Compliance to their company? We need slides quickly that speak to the benefits/ROI of a properly staffed & resourced Trade Compliance organization. Maybe more importantly, we need any slides folks may have re why Trade Compliance cannot report to Operations or Logistics. Thank […]
Question: We have a senior leader who wants to outsource all trade data management. He doesn’t want anyone within our company to have any access to that trade data and only wants the third party consulting company to have access. This does not seem right to me, as at the end of the day, my […]
Question: We are in the process of developing a job description for a new positionwithin our compliance organization. The position would be primarilyresponsible for classifying product in the US, confirming globalclassification with counterparts in Asia/Europe/etc., auditing existingproduct classifications, maintaining this information in SAP/GTS, formalizingprocedures & process flows, etc. Would anyone be willing to share a […]
