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”.
Question: check this out! http://www.importgenius.com/ I was a little shocked to see my sister companies name on this website so I dug a little deeper and find it shocking that they are offering to sell import data for companies. Where are they getting this information? Is this even legal?? How do we […]
Question: I have been working with one of the large couriers over the last week on a small import that was subject to FDA requirements. The shipment went through the port of Anchorage, AK. Because the import was filed under this courier’s name, the FDA refused the importation. I requested that the courier […]
Question: Okay here’s the situation, we’ve been approached by a Nigerian hospital who want to buy our product for back-up power. The Nigerian government has stepped in and requested documentation and has given us more requirements. We are an ISO certified company and have offered to confirm that status through official documentation but have been […]
