Question:We are importing product that is sensitive to temperature. We have been advised that our freight will have thermic sheets, valued at $10 each covering each pallet over the winter season. Also included the shipment will be temperature recorders valued at $50 each that will record the temperature from the time the product leaves the […]
Question: Here is my problem. My manager is wanting me(my department) to follow up on every import we have to make sure we are declaring the proper value. In that the vendor’s invoice matches what our accounting dept is paying. For purchases this is easy to do. Now I am having an issue with returns, […]
Question: We are shutting down a facility and dispersing the equipment among our other locations. There are some forklift trucks under a lease that I have been asked to ship to a Mexico facility. At the end of the lease, I will have to import theseforklift trucks back into the US. These forklifts are powered […]
Question: My company is medium-sized and does not benefit from a Global Trade Management System. I don’t have any hope of getting one anytime soon either. However, we do have an in-house Lean Six Sigma program and I was able to get approval to start a project on analyzing our import process. Our number […]
Question: We are making a drop shipment to the Caribbean and our customer (in theCaribbean) is asking us to make the shipment without a commercial invoice. We would advise the carrier the value between ourselves and our customer for. US export purposes but the AWB would declare NVD (No Value Declared) and NCV (No […]
Question: When requesting confidential treatment of certain manifest information to the CBP Disclosure Law Officer, how do others handle variations in your company name? I can write the request listing our legal name and address, but as many of you know, what your company name is does not always match what is put on […]
Question: Has anyone been reviewing and working on the MOVEMENT bill, HR2355? This will increase HMF by 350%. For us, that’s about 400K per year. It seems to me that the sues of the increase are vague and ill defined. The fund would be used for grants for eligible goods movement improvement, environmental, […]
Question: What would be the best sources to confirm current temporary import regulations applicable in different countries?
Question: Are any of the members aware of any problems importing in to the U.S.from Yemen?
Question: I have an ocean shipment with 8 containers on it. Cargo in one of the containers has become critical and we need to expedited it from LGB inland. My forwarder is saying there could be a $10,000 AMS fine for changing the information at this time. (Vessel ETA into LGB is next weekend). […]
Questions: One of our inexperienced buyers, for our family owed retail stores, is making a trip to Asia to source garments for import into the US and to look at well known private label garments, being sold at origin, due to cancellation of orders. We’ve never purchased well known private label garments abroad in any […]
Question: Who should be listed as the correct “MID” on 7501 when US manufactured goods returned temporarily for repair? I told the broker the MID should be “US manufacturer” but he argued the MID should be the “shipper”.
