Question: What documentation must be maintained for record keeping compliance on a transfer of title in a foreign trade zone, from the party who caused the goods to be admitted to the zone to another party removing the goods and serving as importer of record? *********** Answers: A simple title transfer document, signed by the […]
Question: I think setting up a manufacturing foreign trade zone is an option for the case outlined at the bottom of this email. I have two questions: 1) Once set up, can a company choose exactly which products they want to put (or not put) under it? 2) I know this is a vague question […]
Question: Can a zone operator electronically arrive any bonded carrier’s I.T.? Should a POA be required from the carrier to the zone operator to perform this function? *********** ANSWERS: A zone operator can arrive a bonded carriers IT if they have the ABI software to do this. For the most part, the filing of the […]
Question: Is it a requirement in the FTZ regulations that the FTZ Administrator sit within the four walls of the FTZ or can that person be located elsewhere ?If required in the regs can you please let me know where in the regs. ************* ANSWER: Customs does not require the FTZ administratorto be located at […]
Question: Can you have a “cross-dock facility” as a Foreign Trade Zone where Container A, Container B and Container C will come into the Zone on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and will be shipped out “as is” on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and have the 7501 filed with the $485 MPF at the end of […]
Question: Is it a requirement in the FTZ regulations that the FTZ Administrator sit within the four walls of the FTZ or can that person be located elsewhere ? If required in the regs can you please let me know where in the regs. =========== Answers: There is no legal requirement that an FTZ administrator […]
Question: For those importers who operate an FTZ can you please let me know which functional group your FTZ administrator belongs to************** ANSWERS: I have seen them report to compliance in a company owned zone, and to the warehouse manager in a 3PL GPZ. ************** Currently to Logistics but in my humble opinion, it […]
Question: We are an operator of an FTZ distribution center. Recently local CBP requested that we complete a CF 3078, application for identification card, on behalf of one our corporate officers (who incidentally do not reside in the FTZ, but corp HQ in a different state). They said this was required due to a new […]
Question: We are starting up an FTZ at our US manufacturing facility. We want to send a letter to our USA based vendors, alerting them that we will only accept “domestic” status merchandise. I have drafted the below; does anyone have any comments on it? Dear US Supplier, ABC Co. will […]
Question: We are going to be implementing a FTZ in the next few months and are currently working on getting our signage made to inform people that they will be entering the zone and must abide by the regulations under 18 U.S.C. 549. Could anyone please give some suggestions: -What size the sign should be. […]
See attached signage templates.
Question: My company has a manufacturer located in an Economic Zone in India. We order goods from them, and have them shipped to our facility in the US for testing. (the testing is for quality control purposes). Once the testing is complete, we ship the goods to our customers, who may be either domestic or […]
