When employees are returning from over-seas and shipping their tools and tool boxes used on site locations back to the US, you can use the HTSUS 9801.00.8500 since these are tools of the trade. What is the best Schedule B/HTSUS to use when shipping these tools out to the location? There are a variety of […]
I am looking for a site on information for finding what the exact export documents are required to import into said countries. I am interested in Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE and Saudi Arabia. Also what the minimum legal requirements are on an export commercial invoice document. We are getting a new Oracle system and I need […]
If a forwarder uses a horribly wrong Sched B number, one that is mapped to a normally licensable commodity, what corrective options does the USPPI have regarding the erroneous SED? The actual product shipped was not / is not controlled and the USPPI always gives the correct Sched B numbers to the freight forwarder. I’ll […]
We sell food and beverage products to distributors who re-sell to Central/South America for us. We used to allow our distributors to pick up at our warehouse and handle the entire export logistics but when we learned that some were actually re-selling (diverting) to the US market we are no longer allowing EXW and only […]
Company A (a U.S. company/person) is subcontracted by Company B (also a U.S. company) to perform installation work on a communications system on a U.S. Military Vessel located in a foreign destination in Asia. If Company A does not take any defense materials with them what export compliance responsibility does Company A have, if any? […]
Is anyone familiar with the regulations on exporting caffeine from China? We are looking into sourcing this ingredient but are being told that it takes 60 days to get a gov’t issued license to export this product via ocean and that quantities over 200g are not allowed by airfreight. I cannot find anything on this […]
Since theoretically precedent cases are not required to be submitted with DSP-5 or agreements what criteria do you use in choosing to submit precedent cases. All automatically? Selectively? How many?
Can one of the members please help clear up an export question on returns ? Is the schedule B number to export a repaired item the same if the product is of US or foreign origin ? While looking at 9801.10.0000 the description seems a little confusing. The description of having been previously imported just […]
Is anyone familiar with the USDA’s Sugar Containing Products Re-export Program. Additionally, can someone point me in the direction of information on the program, as well as provide the name of a consultant or firm that may assist in the filing to the USDA.
Our broker has told us that with a few exceptions, either the HTSUS OR Schedule B could be used to classify exports. Can anyone point us to any guidance that has been written in this regard?
We have product that is country of origin Hong Kong (cut/sew in HKG) that goes BACK to S. China (Shenzhen) for pressing/packing etc and then BACK to HKG again for export to US. I’m being told that because they are HKG country of origin, they have to physically export from Hong Kong. Couldn’t we just […]
Looking for some clarification on “routed exports”. Currently our FPPI’s contract the freight forwarders for U.S. export and we provide their contracted forwarder with the SLI (no POA). Is this a “routed export”? What are our obligations for export?
