Samples

When sending mutilated textile samples to China, what is the proper value to use? Should it be the actual value prior to mutilation or a lesser value? These are all sent via courier.

Does any of the members use 9817.85.01 for quality inspections of samples.

We are a large chemical company attempting to re-write and implement more stringent procedures for samples shipments for R&D. Procedures in place require that the logistics and regulatory departments be notified prior to placing order for samples; unfortunately, of course this process is not followed in a lot of cases. Recently a sample shipment was […]

Question: Does anyone in the membership have a good internal control/SOP for capturing and controlling imports to the US of samples and/or one for the export of goods “free of charge” that might be assists?

We’re interested in learning companies’ best practices for how you treat your imported SAMPLES that arrive via couriers. Being that sample prices are generally low, do you: A) Require that you are shown as IOR on the customs entry? B) Does the decision to be shown as IOR vary based on value? Entry type? Other […]

At what monetary value or qty can an importer be permitted to import competitive samples into the U.S. w/o needing to notify the trademark owner? Samples being imported are made of metal.

Our customers send pharmaceutical products for my company to “sample” print on and return to them. It may be a potential customer and we want to show our printing capabilities or it may be a current customer and we need to simulate a printing problem. Sometimes the product is listed as a placebo and other […]