Import

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 […]

Question: We are being told from our broker that only UPS is allowed to file entries in Customs port 4196 as they bear the full cost of port operations. Have any other members ever experienced this ??? Sounds like a monopolistic practice to me.

Our system does not currently support pricing by KG. The duty for our international shipments has been invoiced at the price per pound. We have not had any issues in clearance or customer complaints about pricing. Does anyone know what the ramifications are, if any, for showing the duty at price per pound instead of […]

Our customer has a defense contract with the U.S. Government. I am sure we should be able to import material duty free. I am looking to clarify exactly what is required to get this duty-free status as the Importer and not the party with the Gov’t contract and what we would need to do? I […]

Under 19CFR 141.89, there is indication that certain items classified under chapter 72 and 73 need a mill analysis or mill certificate for iron or steel. We’ve imported items under this area for quite some time without being asked for this information and just recently have been asked to provide these certificates on an entry. […]

I have sent an email to customs to request the cost of the ITRAC report (customs now requires that we pay in advance before they will run the report). In order to save time, I have was hoping to send the request with the check but have not received a response. Does anyone know what […]

Does anyone import Fluorescent light bulbs? We are trying to find out if there are any special import requirements involved?

Years ago, CBP published a list of the largest U.S. importers by entered value, and then quickly removed it. Does anyone have that list that they can share, or know where similar current information can be accessed?

Where can I find specific verbiage relating to US Export controls being complied with for US Imports? I’ve known that when importing you are not to deal with a party on the denied parties list as you cannot on the export side. We are not, but I want to make it clear that just because […]