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 […]
Question: When exporting merchandise from FTZ to Canada, aside from a 7512 TE if we want to move the merchandise in bond, are there other CBP export reporting requirements? Exporter of Record documentation as opposed to Importer of Record?? ==========
Question: We had a container arrive at our FTZ with a hole in the roof. About 80% of the product is soaking wet, and most of the cartons have disintegrated so we cannot scan them. We are looking at 3 options: 1. To manually receive the goods […]
