Export

Questions and answers about Export

  • 3PL and invoices for export

    Question: When using a 3PL warehouse for storage and shipping of your goods – who does the invoices when you have export shipment? Do you as the USPPI prepare invoice and send it to the 3PL for them to use? Do they as 3PL have authorization to generate invoice on your behalf showing your company […]

  • Electronic invoice

    Question: For those that do electronic invoicing for shipments through FedEx, DHL, UPS, etc, how do you handle recordkeeping.  Do you also have the system generate a pdf of the invoice for you to keep. Answer 1: When I worked for Nippon Express, after I completed the file/give to the billing department, processed the billing […]

  • Export AES filing when shipping to a distributor or reseller

    Question: Hello: Our company sells to distributors and resellers when shipping to certain international locations. Do we need to report both the distributor and end-user when filing our export declarations? Thank you in advance for your response! Answer 1: The consignee/ship to party/distributor = ultimate consignee in EEI/AES, assuming you are in fact SHIPPING to […]

  • USPPI

    Question: We export product from several locations that we either own or lease. The exporter/seller on our paperwork shows our corp office, and the shipping location is also noted (different address, never the corp office). Our forwarder uses the p/u location as the USPPI. Is that ok to do? Shouldn’t it be the corp address […]

  • Export T&E

    Question: We have a shipment going direct from Canada supplier to Australia through the port of New York.   We are using a T&E (through a bonded carrier) to get it to the port for shipping.  We own the product from the supplier’s door.  Invoice from Canada supplier is to US company who in turn invoices […]

  • Hand Carries

    Question: Members For organizations that do business in China, how are you managing the hand carry of company laptops, electronic tablets, and cell phones since the ECCN (Export Control Classification Number) designation is 5A992 which requires an EEI filing?  Do you require employees to report when they are travelling with these items and file an […]

  • ORIGINAL BL and Telex

    Question: Does anyone have a good resource for explaining the difference between an express release, telex release, and releasing original BLs at destination, and the difference between the latter two. Are there any countries that will not allow an original BL to be released at destination, i.e. Brazil? I’m looking for a better explanation that […]

  • BIS Guidance on use of Trade Integrity Project’s List

    Question: I’m wondering what industry’s reaction has been to the BIS guidance to consult the Trade Integrity Project’s screening list.   We have incorporated it into our screening, but it has not yet been incorporated into our screening software due to some valid concerns. Where did this information come from?  How can its accuracy be verified?   When […]

  • Appropriate Incoterm

    Question: We currently ship to Central and Latin America under either EXW our warehouse in New Jersey or FCA our warehouse in New Jersey or the buyer’s designated forwarder’s warehouse in Florida.   At times when we ship to the buyer’s designated forwarder’s Florida warehouse, we charge the buyer freight from NJ to FL and at […]

  • Subscribing to Daily Bugle

    Question: Has anyone had problems subscribing to the Daily Bugle newsletter?  Are they not adding new subscribers anymore? Answer 1: I signed up at the end of June with no issues. Answer 2: From the Monday, August 12 edition of the Daily Bugle: Daily Bugle Subscription Function Restored “Constant Contact, the distributor of this newsletter, […]

  • Export

    Question: Is this transaction an export? Our company is located in the US and is registered as a US company.  Our company purchases a product from a US manufacturer and sells it to our US customer.  We contract to have the product delivered to a location in the US near the US/Mexico border.  The product […]

  • Regulatory Citation & Penalties for noncompliance

    Question: I need to put together an outline of regulations and penalties for exports by ocean from the US and Europe for my company.  We are located close to the ports and load full containers on the day of the port cut and submit temporary information to the freight forwarders to submit to the vessel […]