QUESTION: My company has a foreign customer that we export to. My company completes all of the export documents and files the EEI and receives the ITN. We then release the shipment to the foreign customer’s designated freight forwarder who handles the export move. Would this scenario be considered a routed transaction? ========== Answers: This […]
QUESTION: Our supply chain has developed a process (without my participation) for shipments to our ex-US warehouses which involves the shipping site signing the commercial invoice and SLI. For drop shipments from 3rd party suppliers, the invoice is manually created by the invoicing department, and the invoicing department is signing the documents. This concerns me, […]
QUESTION: We have been asked to change delivery terms on sales to a Mexico client from delivery at their Mexico maquiladora to delivery at their forwarder’s facility in Texas. To maintain the exemption on the Texas sales and use tax we need proof of export. Not all of the shipments require an EEI. We would […]
QUESTION: If the US exporter sends a tool that is owned by their customer to the exporters Maquiladora, how do you declare the value of the assist? ========== Answers: While the information is not very detailed understand that anytime a tool, product, raw material or other type of material is provided “Free of Charge” it […]
QUESTION: I was curious if anyone in the membership has found a way to pull data out of the ACE Portal for US exports to Canada? My companies exports are not ITAR, nor do they require licenses, thus none of the standard reports pull any data. Are there any data points in ACE for Canadian […]
QUESTION: We have submitted and gotten and approval for our export license with a typo in the zip code, do we need to re-submit and obtain a new export license to show that the correct zip code? Facts: The EUC contains the End User’s correct zip code in their letterhead. BUT under EUC information […]
QUESTION: How does the membership handle domestic sales where they are asked to ship outside the US (destinations other than Canada)? I have a US customer that has asked me to ship to their customer outside the US. How is the EEI filed? The US customer would the USPPI in this situation but I am […]
QUESTION: The scenario is shipping automotive parts, US finished goods(EAR99) to a subsidiary located in the EU. I have read through 31 C.F.R. 560.215 showing prohibitions to Iran. There is an exemption under General License H that allows you to ship items that don’t have a license. However, on Oct 13, 2017 President Trump chose […]
QUESTION: Who has the right to file drawback on a Routed Transaction? Is it the USPPI if they file the EEI or can the filing rights transfer to the FPPI if they (their US Agent) files the EEI? ========== Answers: Drawback has nothing to do with routed & non-routed transactions. Review your drawback regs regarding […]
QUESTION: Are there any reporting requirements when you use the Export Administration Regulations exception TMP (temporary export) ? Is there a field for AES filing specifically for TMP? ========== Answer: Assuming an AES is filing is required under the normal rules, you must file the proper “license type code”. Beyond AES I’m not sure what […]
QUESTION: Our company (US HQ) has multiple sales offices in Europe and one distribution center in The Netherlands. The DC in NL has an EORI number because we are importing and exporting product from there. We send promotional material to the EU sales offices from HQ and have always used the Dutch entity as the […]
QUESTION: We have a customer in Tunisia stating that shipments from our Canadian and US facilities, and presumably from everywhere else outside of Tunisia, requires a copy of the export declaration from the exporting country. Has anyone else dealt with this and, if so, how? ========== Answers: You can offer them a letter of exportation, […]
