QUESTION: Can we use blanket end-user certificate? Does anyone doing that instead of asking for each shipment? Most of our shipments are intercompany and same products with same ECCN. **************** Answers: Sure – I allow this for high volume/repeat orders and the maximum period of validity is one year. SO instead of referencing a single […]
QUESTION: A recent question to the membership centered around Restricted Party Screening and determining an appropriate “% match score” to search for potential hits, or matches, to a company’s list of vendors/customers. When we set our parameters to look at potential hits with a 95% match, we get lots of hits with names that are […]
QUESTION: A recent question to the membership centered around Restricted Party Screening and determining an appropriate “% match score” to search for potential hits, or matches, to a company’s list of vendors/customers. When we set our parameters to look at potential hits with a 95% match, we get lots of hits with names that are […]
QUESTION: This is not a question of what software provider is better or who recommends what service provider. My question is how does everyone get their 100s if not 1000s of solicitations from your customers (we are automotive) loaded into the FTA software you use. And do you keep a log of all the requests […]
QUESTION: We sometimes store assets for clients who then want items shipped internationally. The clients own the materials. What is the best way to protect ourselves and best practices procedures we can implement when it comes to coordinating their shipments internationally? Some of the assets have their own goods in them that were not manufactured […]
QUESTION: Can anyone recommend how or who I can contact regarding a duty refund check that was issued last year. Broker said it should have been sent to us but accounting here has no record of it. *************** Answers: There is information on requesting replacement checks on CBP’s website: https://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/revenue/bonds/replacement-checks **************** The National Finance Center […]
QUESTION: Scenario- USA company purchases an item from a foreign affiliate. We have the product here in the USA so the foreign affiliate wants us (We are in the USA) to just ship the product to this USA company. My question is, wouldn’t the foreign affiliate have to file a “export” this product instead of […]
QUESTION: If there’s a ruling from CBP putting my widget into one HTS, is it prudent to also use the corresponding Schedule B when exporting? Is it possible for an item to have wildly different HTS and Sched B numbers? ************** Answers: First, I don’t encourage use of the Schedule B system for any US company […]
QUESTION: What is the best way to get entry documents when the import is done via a large carrier or express courier ? All I have for a current carrier air shipment is the commercial invoice, packing list, and air waybill. Do you just have to email them requesting the entry #, then look it […]
QUESTION: We are reviewing the confidence % for our Restricted Party screening. Currently we have set this fairly low and this is generating a large number of low confidence hits, in fact 94% are low confidence, 4% are high and just 2% are finally confirmed as matches after manual validation. We want users to spend […]
QUESTION: Due to limited staffing, we post entry audit our entries at a high level, comparing our import documents against the 7501. We ensure the conversion rate is correct and verify payment amount in our GBS system matches 7501 value. Our entries are mostly low dollar air shipments. We have someone new at one of […]
QUESTION: My company is a ‘TSA Known Shipper’ at the majority of our locations however we have one location where we rent warehouse space and do not own the facility. We are running into issues with certain forwarders who advise they cannot move our freight as that particular facility is not a known shipper. Does […]
