Export

Questions and answers about Export

  • POA FOR ROUTED TRANSACTIONS

    Question:   If our foreign customer requires that we use a particular forwarder (not knowing if they gave them a POA or written authorization), and that same forwarder is also our forwarder that we have provided a POA or WA to, is this still a Routed Export Transaction, since technically, both the USPPI and the […]

  • EXPORT FOR NORTH KOREA

    Question:   As a distributor, we are selling medical equipment domestically to a humanitarian group who will export the merchandise with the required license to North Korea.   We intend to instruct our buyer about his obligations as an exporter since we know the final destination of the goods and the buyer has provided us […]

  • VALUE FOR EXPORT

    Question: Our supplier is responsible for transportation and costs to move our product to Laredo, Texas to be ultimately exported to Mexico.  The Incoterm is DAF.   Do we need to include the freight and insurance costs in the value of the merchandise we are reporting in AES?  Or do we include those costs only when […]

  • EXPORT OF SALES “KITS”

    Question: We are putting together a sample kit for different gloves we are trying to sell outside of the US, i.e. Canada, Mexico. This kit is for our sales and distributors when visiting potential customers. Although the product is the same, gloves, these gloves are different, metal mesh, textile with rubber, and leather. They are […]

  • EXPORT CONSOLS FOR LATIN AMERICA

    Question:   Our intercompany customers in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic have requested that we not consolidate orders to them due to their local customs regulations.   Have any other members received this type of request?  My concern is that this may be a “customer” requirement and not an actual “customs” requirement.   Not […]

  • EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS

    Question:   Through a conversation I had recently with an Export Compliance person from another company, it was mentioned that they perform a bi-annual check of all their US and foreign subsidiary employees against the Restricted Party Listings issued by OFAC and BIS (they stated this requirement is outlined in UN resolution 1390, Part 2A, […]

  • WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION FOR ROUTED TRANSACTION

    Question: We are specifically be required to do a routed export transaction since ourcustomer requires that we have their forwarder hand the export out of thecountry.But we require that we file the AES EEI since we know it will be donecorrectly. The forwarder has agreed to this.Does someone have the properly wordsmithed Written Authorization thatpertains […]

  • EXPORT TRANING FOR IT STAFF

    Question: Those anyone in the membership have a presentation for export compliance awareness training for IT. I have been asked to provide awareness training to this group and a really have only the very basics. The training will take place on June 8. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

  • EXPORT CLASSIFICATION

    Question: My company sells machines for exports, but due to the size of our machines, they are exported in up to 7-8 shipments (some of the shipments are direct from foreign suppliers to our foreign customer). The issue is, we sell a machine, but ship components of the machine until the whole machine has shipped. […]

  • VPN ACCESS BY FOREIGN EMPLOYEES

      Question: Would the members consider access by US person employee to technical data or technology on the US company’s network via VPN from outside the country an export if no non-US persons are given access?  (Is the data really leaving the US?)

  • DETERMINING WHO FILES EEI

    Question: The question sounds like it involves an FCA (customer’s forwarder) situation.  In all cases, seems like the answer is that the customer’s forwarder needs to be filing EEI on the FPPI’s behalf.  Perhaps I should pose the question, what about the INCOterm saying shipper is responsible for clearing for export? How does that impact […]