Question: What defines a company as the actual “Exporter”? Am I the Exporter if I ship to a foreign address under “FCA my dock” Incoterms terms? Am I the Exporter if I ship to a foreign address but am paid by a domestic customer? ========== Answers: What defines a company as the actual “Exporter”? NAFTA […]
Question: Would a 5A002.a.1 item still qualify for license exception ENC when the end user is a non “government end user” (private sector) located and headquartered in India (not listed in Supplement 3 of part 740)? Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Per CCATS, the item’s reasons for control are NS1 & AT1, and ENC […]
Question: I am not familiar with casting/molding so the terms are throwing me off, but we want to export sand insert cores as well as some samples to a potential supplier for testing. The inserts are compressed silica sand coated with phenol-formaldehyde. Aside from my doubts that they will arrive in one piece, I don’t […]
Question: Who should be the USPPI (U.S. Principal Party in Interest) and exporter of record for an export shipments being done by a Foreign Entity Company exporting under bond? The scenario is a Foreign Entity Company with an importer number will be importing raw materials in bond to the US under the Free Trade Zone […]
Question: We sell snack foods into Canada that are imported and shipped directly from Europe. We take ownership in Germany, and issue the commercial invoice to the Canadian importer from the US. Payments are made to us in the US. Is this considered an Export from a US perspective, though the goods never enter US […]
Question: For routed exports, we provide a letter to the freight forwarder with the information required by the regulations. Should we include a statement in the letter that this is NOT a POA and that the freight forwarder is not authorized to file AES on our behalf? They should only be filing on behalf of […]
Question: As projects come up, we competitively bid air freight. So there are a number of different forwarders who could have our freight for export. We sign either a freight forwarding agreement and/or provide a shipper’s letter of instruction. If our company handles the export filing via AES, is there really a need to […]
Question: We would like to develop an export control risk assessment checklist/spreadsheet that we can use to ensure we are reviewing all needed areas. Such items we would capture are review of SOP’s, manuals, licenses, classification, valuation, etc… Does anyone have one they would be willing to share? ************ Answers: BIS has published an […]
Question: Seeking guidance from the membership for sources of Export Manual Templates or if anyone would be gracious enough to share theirs. ************ Answers: BIS published a template to assist companies who need to customize a compliance program. If you haven’t reviewed it I would suggest starting here because it covers elements they would be […]
Question: We are exploring the option of using our couriers software to create electronic commercial invoices for our US export shipments. Data from the electronic CI is sent to the courier so there is not a need to print hard copy CIs for the shipment to process through customs. For further efficiencies, we would like […]
Question: Our company ships product from our U.S plant to our Mexican brokers facility in Laredo TX, where they cut the seal, unload the trailer, inspect product specifically looking for any type of discrepancy and reload a trailer that moves the product from Laredo TX delivering to our plant in MX. I have several […]
Question: What exactly is a TAA and how do we go about applying for TAA for the company in Switzerland that owns the company I am employed with? ========== Answers: A TAA can be daunting if you’ve never done one (but they’re really not hard) but you can find all the information on them at: […]
