Export

Questions and answers about Export

  • EXPORT 101 PRESENTATION

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    QUESTION: Does anyone have an Export 101 Presentation they could share for a new to export / exporter? ========== Answer: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/compliance-a-training/export-administration-regulations-training/online-training-room ======================== Addl Answers: Also seehttps://www.export.gov/Export-Education ========== ========== You may wish to check out www.export.gov –  Export Education tab – Basic Guide To Exporting book plus several videos and webinars All Free

  • COMPANY AS FOREIGN IOR

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    QUESTION: I need to explain internally to the business why we cannot be the IOR for every country we ship to.   We are a manufacturer and distribute our products through foreign distributors globally. However, we often want to send field test units or warranty replacement units directly to the end-user and would like to be […]

  • TOP 5,000 EXPORTERS LIST

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    QUESTION: For imports CBP publishes a list of TOP 5,000 importers; is there a similar list published by the U.S. government for U.S. exporters? We are trying to determine our relative size as an exporter based on $ value of goods exported. ================== ANSWER: No. To get some idea on top exporters by TEU count […]

  • CONSOLIDATING EXPORTS ON ONE EEI

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    QUESTION: A company has orders that ship from different locations on different days to the same customer and the same freight forwarder. This freight forwarder stores and consolidates these orders into a single shipment when the customer advises to ship. Are there other companies that have this scenario and if so how you coordinate the […]

  • BRAZIL & ARGENTINA WARRANTY REPLACEMENTS

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    QUESTION: Does anyone know if there are any duty free provisions for importing warranty replacement parts into Brazil and/or Argentina? =========== Answer: Not aware of any.  Most countries will charge duty on the value of the goods at time of import, regardless if under warranty or No Charge. ==================================================================

  • HTS ON EXPORT DOCUMENTS

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    QUESTION: We ship from our factory in the EU.  Right now in our system it produces the US Schedule B number to be printed on the EU export invoice.  Is this number required?  We would like to change our system to reflect US HTS numbers.  Unfortunately, as it stands now we cannot have multiple numbers.  […]

  • IMPORTING TRANSFORMERS TO ARGENTINA

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    QUESTION: Is the membership aware of any restrictions on the import of transformers into Argentina?  If so, can someone point to where the applicable resources on understanding the scope and requirements of these restrictions are? =========== Answer: Transformers on HTS 85.04 doesn’t have any restriction for importation into Argentina, to be able to successfully import […]

  • CONSOLIDATING EXPORTS ON ONE EEI

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    QUESTION: A company has orders that ship from different locations on different days to the same customer and the same freight forwarder. This freight forwarder stores and consolidates these orders into a single shipment when the customer advises to ship. Are there other companies that have this scenario and if so how you coordinate the […]

  • EXPORT DOCUMENTS

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    QUESTION: We ship from our factory in the EU.  Right now in our system it produces the US Schedule B number to be printed on the EU export invoice.  Is this number required?  We would like to change our system to reflect US HTS numbers.  Unfortunately, as it stands now we cannot have multiple numbers.  […]

  • ACE EXPORT REPORTING

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    QUESTION: I created an ACE export account mainly for monitoring purposes. Our company does very little exporting and has not exported anything for the past two years.  I plan to use ACE export reporting to ensure that our company id information is not improperly used. I have ran a couple of ACE export reports with […]

  • OBTAINING CCATS COPIES

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    QUESTION: We are conducting an internal record keeping audit of our CCATS; does anyone have knowledge of a way to get a list or copies of all our CCATS other than the SNAP-R website? ************ Answers: Probably the simplest way would be to submit a written request to Exporter Services at BIS and provide your […]

  • RE-FILING EEI AND CROSSING TIME REQUIREMENTS

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    QUESTION: Here is a scenario. EEI has been filed yesterday as a Date of Export. The NLR shipment is now crossing the border to MX today. Per regulation, the EEI requires to be filed 1 hr prior to cross the border for Non-USML shipments. The EEI were retransmitted with correct DOE. Does the clock start […]