Question: Each time we deal with a new foreign or domestic customer we screen thecustomer’s name against the government watch lists. Since we have a few hundred thousand customers in our database, follow-upscreening to determine if an existing customer has moved to a watch list isa tremendous task and we are currently conducting a second […]
Question:I have a few questions pertaining to this scenario. A commodity was exported out of the U.S., and then imported back into the U.S.for repair .Unfortunately no indication that it was a repair noted on invoice. Therefore no record of shipment entering as repair. Imported using HTSUS for the commodity plus full value. The repair […]
Question: Does anyone have a Best Practice, Process, or Procedure for shipping non-product items, such as office supplies, personal belongings, furniture, etc.to employees deployed to overseas locations? Our shipping department is inundated with shipments of items that are notcontractual line items, that could be considered personal items or sundries,to our folks supporting US operations outside […]
Question:Company A in the U.S. accepted an order from company B in the U.S. for a widget we sell commercially. Company B asked us to ship it to there warehouse C in the U.S. Company B asked us to provide an invoice showing the ship to as the company B’s related company D in a […]
Question: DDTC posted proposed revisions to Category VII recently, and more categories are coming. This is all part of “phase II” of export control reform, which can be done administratively by the agencies, i.e. they can just make the changes by changing their regulations (phase III reforms require Congress approval). My question is this: the […]
Question: Does anyone in the membership send out regularly scheduled emails ornewsletters with respect to export compliance, its importance,reminders, news, etc? If so would anyone be willing to share anexample?
Question:Can someone please help me understand the calculation used for field #8 of the U.S. Certificate of Origin For Exporters to Israel in the following example? US content and direct costs = $24.00 Foreign content + $1.00 Sale Price = $100.00 As I see it “P” is not correct as the item is not wholly […]
Question:Just wanted to toss this question around. If I have manufacturing equipment for the brew process that is made up of all Non US parts and is exporting from a European Country. What would stop my foreign counterparts from exporting this machine to Syria when it has a Microsoft based operating system? =====================
Question: I have in the past insisted the forwarder acting on behalf of the FPPIprovide my company as the USPPI a copy of the EEI once the filing was made.I have also requested they provide a copy of the POA from the FPPI issued tothem as the agent. This is per 15 CFR 30.3 (e) […]
Question:Our company exports large quantities of marine engine parts that mostly fit under the same 6-digit Schedule B number. We have been sending the entire 10-digit HTSUS classification to our freight forwarder, as our system has always held the full HTSUS code and we did not think there was any problem with using it for […]
Question: What do you maintain as your documentation in making your exportclassification (ECCN/USML) determinations?Does anyone have a checklist that they use and are willing to share ineither ECCN or USML classification process.
Question: We are a US-based company that manufactures and sells medical equipment.Our foreign subsidiaries are selling our medical equipment to customerslocated in Iran using approved licenses received from OFAC. We recentlystarted receiving requests from our foreign subs asking for approval toprovide “equipment repair” and “warranty services” to these Iraniancustomers for the equipment we have […]
