Import

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 […]

Question:Do any of you have a good way of measuring the time gap between when your cargo is ready until the time your forwarder/trucker picks it up at the foreign origin?

Question: I  have a few items that are classified as 4421.90.9760, descriptions are below.  That HTS covers a wide variety of products, not all Softwoodlumber items.  However, the descriptions of the items provided by my customer makes me think these could be Softwood, not sure.  I looked up the definition on Google and couldn’t confirm […]

Does anyone in the membership have an estimate on how long it would take USCBP to complete a FOIA request? Pretty straight forward request actually, looking for the ports a competitor is using (ruled against in an ITC case for IPR infringement).

Question: We just had an interesting situation come up in that one of our engineers found a Vision Card on EBay for a great price. The seller was from Israel and had a good seller score and had been an EBay member for several years. We have a block on credit card purchases involving foreign […]