Import

Questions and answers about Import

  • CUSTOMER RETURNS

    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, […]

  • IMPORTING USED VEHICLES POWERED by PROPANE

    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 […]

  • IMPORT TRANSPARENCY

    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 […]

  • NO CI FOR A DROP SHIPMENT

    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 […]

  • CONFIDENTIALITY FOR B/L INFO

    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 […]

  • HR 2355 – HMF

    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, […]

  • CONTAINER DIVERSION

      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). […]

  • PURCHASING CANCELLED ORDERS OVERSEAS

    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 […]

  • MID FOR RETURN SHIPMENTS

    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”.  

  • IMPORT GENIUS WEBSITE

    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 […]