Summary of key points for exporting to the United States!

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01, service standards

American goods require meticulous service, and the service after the goods arrive at the port is also very important. If the goods arrive at the port within 15 days, if the customs broker does not PROCEED, the goods will enter G.O. Warehouse, G.O. Warehouse charges are very high.

02, agent qualification review

In addition to the various shipping companies, all the regular freight forwarders engaged in the United States line transportation must have a freight limited company registered in the United States (FMC) and have the official code of NVOCC, otherwise if any problems occur in the United States transportation process can not get the corresponding legal protection. A freight forwarder is not necessarily a registered member of FMC, so it must be confirmed in advance.

03, detailed provisions

1. Confirmation of specific transportation destination

In US trade, many customers have different warehouses throughout the United States, and it is very important to finally confirm their FINAL DESTINATION during the shipping process. Especially in the United States, there are many places with the same place name, such as Washington, there are 4 or 5, if the customer does not have the week name and postcode, it is very likely to send the wrong goods. The United States is vast and sparsely populated, and the trailer cost is more than one thousand yuan, and the guests confirm that it is the most critical to clearly divide the responsibility.

2. Large customers in the United States have many requirements for suppliers to cooperate with the provision of logistics fee services

A. Customers often require partition loading. Particular attention should be paid to goods sold to foreign supermarkets. (such as placing order, quantity requirements, documents attached to the container)

B. Deliver on time as required by customers. Try to track the movement of the container as much as possible, many foreign customers will require the goods to arrive at the port before the specific time (SHIPPNG PERIOD), the factory's delay may cause a large penalty to the foreign country. The tracking of goods in logistics is also critical.

C. Documents are accurately and timely provided to foreign countries for customs clearance. Generally speaking, foreign customs clearance can be 7 days before the arrival of the ship. In order to avoid possible DETENSION and DEMURRAGE, foreign demurrage fees are often caused by the delay of documents.

3. Late pick-up charges at the port

Detention fee: the company charged, for large customers can be given more free use date.

Demurrage fee: The fee charged by the shipping company's wharf varies according to the wharf.

04, freight price

All freight forwarding companies in the United States are using the contract price, but not every freight forwarding company has the price of the United States line, and must have a strong strength to directly sign the price of the United States line with each shipping company. Because there is an organization called FMC in the United States, its role is to adjust the shipping prices of all shipping companies in the United States to ensure the interests of American customers.

05, weight limit regulations

The weight limit here = cargo weight + cabinet weight. The requirements for the weight of goods to the United States line are very strict, and the weight limit is mainly affected by the road weight limit to the inland point of the United States, the general small cabinet 17.3 tons, and the large high cabinet 19.5 tons. But according to different ports also have different weight limit requirements, if the customer's request, really want to transport the overweight cargo to the inland point of the United States, generally speaking, there are three ways to deal with:

1. Underreporting

Booking data, customs declaration data and manifest data should be shipped with acceptable weight as small as possible. The downside: If you are checked and weighed while on the road in the United States, you will face heavy fines.

2. Allocation of basic ports

After unloading at the base port, the excess parts are allocated and then transferred separately. Disadvantages: If the inland point to be transferred is far away, the cost is high.

3. Railway transfer inland point at the basic port terminal

Some shipping companies have direct rail service to inland points at American base terminals, so that inland points can be reached. If you want to send it to the gate, you can use a 3-row overweight frame to transport it locally, and the trailer cost is only about 30% more than the general towing fee. Difficulty: To find such a shipping company, but also to ask the inland point that has such a service, and finally have a good agent in the local to help arrange the transfer of this overweight trailer.

Of the three methods mentioned above, the first method is generally not recommended. Due to the problem of the system, the probability of checking and weighing on the back of the American highway is relatively large, and if you are lucky, it may not be worth the loss.

06, customs clearance rules

1. The US Customs receives the AMS declaration data from the exporting country after the ship leaves.

2. The local freight forwarder or customs clearance agent in the United States must receive the documents required for import and the arrival notice from the shipping company one week before the arrival of the ship.

3. Apply to the US Customs for import declaration and commodity inspection, and submit documents to the shipping company of the port of destination for release of goods.

4. The container shall be certified to the consignee's trailer line or arranged by the local agent to be transported to the consignee's designated warehouse.

5. Operation process of door-to-door delivery of goods.

A. Delivery of the goods must be made when the consignee is ready.

B. The tow truck company will only give the warehouse 2 hours of loading and unloading time, more than hourly charge. Door-to-door delivery must not allow goods to exceed the U.S. highway weight limit.

07, import document requirements

The H.S. ODE is consistent across the globe, but it is important to provide the most accurate description of the name when verifying foreign taxes. The tariff determination of the United States is also one of the most troublesome countries in the world: if the customer has received DDP, he must provide the most accurate product name and H.S. ODE; if the customer has received shoes, he must send the sample shoes to foreign countries for confirmation.

Appendix: Customs clearance process for exports to the United States

Export goods to the United States trade in a variety of ways, some goods of the United States import customs clearance fees and taxes paid by the shipper, in this case, the United States customs clearance Association requires Chinese exporters to sign a POA power of attorney before shipping, similar to China's customs declaration needs to use the power of attorney. There are usually two customs clearance methods:

1. Customs clearance in the name of the American consignee

That is, the American agent who provides the POA to the freight forwarder by the American consignee, and also needs the Bond of the American consignee.

2. Customs clearance in the name of the shipper

That is, the shipper provides the POA to the freight forwarder at the port of shipment, and the freight forwarder then transfers the POA to the agent at the port of destination. The American agent helps the shipper to apply for the importer's customs registration number in the United States, and the shipper needs to buy the Bond at the same time.

Note:

1, the above two customs clearance methods, No matter which one is used, must use the US consignee's Tax ID (also known as IRS No.) to clear customs. IRS No. (The Internal Revenue Service No.) is a tax identification number registered with the Internal Revenue Service by a U.S. consignee.

2, in the United States, no Bond can not clear customs, no tax number can not clear customs.

The customs clearance process under this type of trade

01, customs declaration

After receiving the arrival notice, the customs broker can apply for customs clearance within 5 days of preparing to arrive at the port or inland point if the documents required by the customs are prepared at the same time. Customs clearance is usually notified within 48 hours by sea and within 24 hours by air. The customs decided to inspect some cargo ships before they arrived at the port. The vast majority of inland points can be Pre-Clear before the ARRIVAL of the goods, but the results will only be displayed after the arrival of the goods (i.e. after the ARRIVAL IT).

There are two ways to declare to customs, one is electronic declaration, and the other is that customs needs to review the written documents. Either way, we must prepare the required documents and other data information.

2. Prepare customs declaration documents

(1) Bill of Lading (B/L);

(2) Commercial Invoice;

(3) Packing List;

(4) Arrival Notice

(5) If Wood packaging is available, a Fumigation Certificate or Non Wood Packing Statement is required.

The name of the consignee on the bill of lading needs to be consistent with the consignee shown on the latter three documents. If it is inconsistent, a Letter of Transfer written by the consignee on the bill of lading is required before the customs clearance can be carried out by the third party. The name, address and telephone number of S/&C/ are also required on the invoice and packing list. Some S/ S documents in China lack such information and will be asked to supplement it.

3. Customs transfer

If customs clearance in the inland, need to do customs transfer we need to provide I.T.#, effective date, departure and stop. Inland Customs will use I.T# to control and release.

4. Release the goods

(1) In the previous ABI system, the shipping company terminal was directly connected to the customs, which meant that if the customs released in the ABI, the shipping company and the terminal could see it.

After the trial of AMS, large-scale shipping companies such as Evergreen, APL, Maersk, COSCO, CSCL, etc., are also connected to AMS, but the docks do not have AMS, so the customs release in AMS, these shipping companies and NVOCC AMS FILER can be synchronized to see, the shipping company helps the dock system update at the same time. Relatively small shipping companies, such as China Overseas Shipping, LYKES, GWS, etc., do not do the AMS network, so they can only be released through NVOCC AMS FILER fax NVOCC guarantee letter and CUSTOMS pass copy (CUSTOMS FORM 3461), these shipping companies receive the fax and then manually update the terminal system.

(2) The dock/shipping company is networked with the shipping company, if the freight is prepaid, the bill of lading is telex release, as long as the customs release, the dock will automatically release the goods to the truck company. American customers do not need to exchange orders, so American agents have no way to help detain the goods, which is completely different from China. Therefore, the loading port has not received the customer's freight, do not do the shipping company large bill of lading telex release or prepaid freight.

(3) For the goods released inland to the inland, the shipping company will give A PICK UP# after customs clearance, the agent will notify C/ after getting the PICK UP#, and the truck company will pick up the goods with this number, which can only be obtained after: A, the goods arrive at the storage yard and get off the container from the train, B, the customs release, C, the shipping company release, and the lack of any item can not be obtained. Therefore, inland goods need to take a long time to track until C/ receive PICK UP#.

In short, the United States agent import goods operation process is as follows:

A. Receive the agent's file (should include: 1+B/L, M B/LCOPY+D/C NOTE) and input it to the computer.

B. One week before the arrival of the goods, we should ask SSL or CO-LOADER for the arrival NOTICE, so the loading port OP must write the arrival date on the D/C NOTICE, which will help the American agent to check the arrival date in time.

C. After receiving an SSL or CO-LO arrival notification, enter it into the computer and send it to the C/ and their customs broker (if you know who) on the same day.

D. Receive the original B/L or sea freight from C/ or customs broker, immediately send the freight and original B/L we need to pay to SSL or CO-LOADER by Courier or Courier, which usually arrives within 24 hours, if there is IC, send to SSL or fax to them.

After receiving the bill of lading and fee, E.SL input the computer to release the goods. If it is sent to CO-LOADER, they will repeat (article D above) and send it to SSL to release the goods. Therefore, the goods of CO-LO will be released about 1-1.5 days late, and C/ will complain.

F. To the inland goods, track the cargo travel, until PICK UP# after fax to C/.

G. Do the goods at the gate, send D.O. (DELIVERY ORDER) to the truck company after the goods are released, and contact the receiving warehouse until the receipt is confirmed. Some C/ s need Pods to get from the truck to the C/ s.

H.oc track the return of boxes to the designated storage yard (require C/ signature confirmation at the time of delivery).

Attached: Take the United States sea LCL precautions

With the rapid development of international trade and the continuous extension of transportation services, container shipping LCL transport is widely used, but the sea LCL transport is different from the sea FCL transport, its transport requirements have its particularity, independence, and now some problems encountered in the actual operation process are put forward and discussed here.

1, Less Than Container Load (LCL) refers to the carrier (or agent) to accept the number of the shipper is less than the full container of the receipt of freight, according to the nature of the cargo and destination classification. The goods going to the same destination are gathered into a certain number and assembled into boxes.

Because a box has different owners of goods assembled together, so called LCL. This situation is used when the shipper's consignment quantity is insufficient to fill the whole container. The classification, sorting, concentration, packing (unpacking) and delivery of Marine LCL cargo are carried out at the carrier's terminal container freight station or inland container transfer station.

Marine LCL can be divided into direct or transshipment, direct consolidation means that the goods in the Marine LCL container are loaded and unloaded in the same port, and the goods are not unpacked before arriving at the port of destination, that is, the goods are the same port of discharge.

This kind of LCL service is short, convenient and fast, and generally strong Marine LCL companies will provide only such services. Transshipment refers to the goods in the container that are not the same destination port and need to be unloaded or transshipped in the middle of the container. Such goods due to different destination ports, long time to ship and other factors, so the shipment time is longer, and even high freight.

2, LCL cargo generally can not accept the designation of a specific shipping company, shipping companies only accept the booking of full container cargo, but not directly accept the booking of sea LCL cargo, only through the freight forwarder (individual strong shipping company through its logistics company) will be able to book the shipping company after the sea LCL cargo, almost all sea LCL cargo is through the freight forwarding company "centralized delivery," "Centralized distribution" to achieve transportation, the East China sea LCL distribution port is basically the port of Shanghai.

General freight forwarders due to the limitations of the supply of goods, can only focus on a few shipping companies booking space, rarely can meet the needs of the designated shipping company, so in the transaction of sea LCL cargo, try not to accept the designated shipping company, so as not to meet the requirements when handling the consignment.

3, in the negotiation with the customer, should pay special attention to the relevant terms of transport, so as not to find that the other party's letter of credit is issued in the consignment can not meet the terms of transport.

4. The charging ton of LCL cargo should be accurate. Before shipping LCL goods, the factory should be required to measure the weight and size of the goods as accurately as possible. When the goods are delivered to the warehouse designated by the freight forwarder for storage, the warehouse will generally measure again, and the re-measured size and weight will be charged.

If the factory changes the packaging, the factory should be asked to notify in time, do not wait for the goods to be delivered to the freight forwarder warehouse, through the freight forwarder to feedback the information back, often time is very tight, and then change the customs declaration document, it is easy to delay customs declaration, or produce expedited customs declaration fees and port charges.

5, some ports due to the shortage of shipping LCL cargo supply, the cost of higher reasons, specialized in shipping LCL freight forwarding companies to take the minimum charge standard for less cargo, such as the minimum starting for 2 freight tons, that is, less than 2 freight tons, all according to 2 freight tons pricing charges. Therefore, the quantity of goods is small, the port of the goods in the transaction should take into account some such factors, so as not to be passive in the future.

6, for some routes and ports are remote, and the customer wants to deliver to the inland sea LCL goods, it is best to consult before signing a contract, confirm that there are shipping companies and freight forwarding companies can undertake to handle these remote ports, inland points delivery and related costs before signing a contract.