Compliance Dept – Organization

Question: Has anyone established an objective measurement that your company has agreed to, providing a basis to staff the trade compliance organization in non-managerial positions?

Question:   I work for a company that has many divisions and we are looking to raise the awareness of compliance at an overall level and not just division, by division.   Can anyone offer assistance on their experiences?   How did you market trade compliance?   How did you show it’s value?   What […]

Question:   Our trade compliance department is currently located in Manufacturing. Management, which does provide us strong support, is thinking of moving us under Purchasing, specifically under the Supply Chain Operations Manager. I’m trying to figure out whether I should argue against this move or not. At the end of the day all I want […]

Question: I am looking to benchmark our practices against others. As we review and update our Corporate Customs Compliance Policy I would like to know: Who reviews, sets and signs the policy at other companies. Do you have stakeholders review and sign? Do you post in on the company intranet?

I am interested in learning from the membership for those who work for US companies with foreign subsidiaries how their compliance function is structured. Do you have a Corporate Export Compliance group who controls the compliance function in the foreign subs, etc? What do the reporting relationships look like and what are the responsibilities of […]

Our company is thinking about restructuring the import/export department. Currently Corporate Import/Export (which reports directly to Corporate Finance) oversees all worldwide customs compliance, in-house brokerage, outside brokers, international freight forwarders, and CTPAT. We also have a newly formed Corporate Supply Chain Group which has been primarily focused on Domestic shipments. The proposal is to transfer […]

I work for a large global company, headquartered in the U.S. Their are two of us, both licensed brokers, at the Corporate office, who make up the Corporate Import Compliance Team. I believe we have a good U.S. import policy and procedures manual for our U.S. Divisions. Now, management wants us to put together a […]

I am a licensed customs broker with 22 years experience, starting my career working with customs broker/freight forwarders. I have been with my current company for 9 years, which is an importer of apparel and footwear. My title is Customs Compliance Mgr. I am the manager of none, but myself. We have grown tremendously with […]

Does anyone have an organization chart for global import/export compliance that they would be willing to share?

As a corporate group, we expect to have over 600 million dollars in sales this year. During 2005, we will import in excess of 20 million kgs of material with a value of well over 200 million dollars. Most of this material will be imported by ocean freight, and we expect to utilize over 1500 […]

We have to do a presentation on the “state of logistics in an era of heightened security”. Besides CTPAT (obvious) what other topics should we include?? Any thoughts would be helpful.

Our internal audit department plans to hire an outside consultant to perform a customs compliance audit of our imports. They have asked if I can provide them with a sample RFP for this. Does anyone have one that they can share? HELP PLEASE!!!!!