Customs & Trade Compliance

When to Use

Use to prepare classification, origin, valuation, documentation, screening and post-entry review analyses for a specified shipment and jurisdiction. Draft broker instructions or questions; do not file entries, certify origin, release held goods, pay duties, block property or contact regulators without authority.

Establish the Applicable Facts

Obtain the importing/exporting jurisdiction, entry date and procedure, actual product specifications and manufacturing history, parties/ownership, end use, route, invoices, costs and declared Incoterms version/named place. Record the applicable tariff/regulation version and source checked. Separate classification, non-preferential origin, preferential origin, export jurisdiction, export-control classification and sanctions: an HS code does not decide all six.

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