Paperwork and terms of trade
Sanity check from a small homeware seller in Taipei, because I only properly understood this one today. The Commission adopted a handling fee of 2 euro per item on 21 September, and the plan is for it to apply by 1 November, but it still...
housewares is full of stuff that can land on a cpsc flagged hts code with nothing behind it that needs a certificate. since july 8 ace just warns on those, it doesnt reject. cpsc's own guidance says disclaim a isnt required for that case,...
my forwarder keeps saying the 3 euro is per item line, not per parcel. fine. but nobody will tell me what counts as a line. a typical order from us is a ceramic mug set, a bamboo tray and two candle holders. under 150 euro. if the lines...
so an advisory on 14 september put four more strings back through the canal. one is the north europe one, first westbound out of tanjung pelepas on 21 september. the other med string not until 17 october. call it 18 percent of the headhaul...
From 1 November the three product identifier codes are mandatory on a distance sale, and they ride on the H1, not only on the low value declaration. The H1 is what I lodge when stock leaves here. The guidance says goods sold to a consumer...
First post here, so let me lay the whole thing out. In my work the detail I left out is always the one that mattered. We move temperature controlled pharmaceutical stock out of Cork. When a consignment goes to a customer outside the EU, an...
Three small shops in France stock my homeware. I write those invoices myself, usually after ten at night, a PDF on an email, and one of them has started talking about platforms. This is my reading and I want to be told it is wrong. The...
A credit under eUCP just ran fully digital between France and the UK: issued 8 June, announced 10 September. It went by road, so no bill of lading. That was the one document I wanted to see. What I read in eUCP Version 2.1, article e8: a...
Reading a resolution instead of a presentation, which is not how I planned the week. From the first of October an exporter of goods here may hold a foreign currency account in Brazil. The credits into it have to come only from export...
The packing list is the last thing that happens in my day. Pallet gets banded after the floor goes quiet, I count cartons, I weigh it, and the truck for Ontario is at the dock in the morning. Then I read yesterday's notice twice and still...
so from 12 august the marketplace has to hold a packaging registration number for the member state the buyer sits in, plus a self certification. no number, listings hidden in that country. fine. i can get numbers. the german side is the...
Half of my week goes on explaining to a buyer in Europe that a customs union is not a free trade agreement. The A.TR in the file says the goods are in free circulation. It says nothing about where the yarn was spun. For origin I still take...
Two CBP texts. One form. The 5106 FAQ: no phone or email for a consignee, tick Consignee/Ultimate Consignee in 1I, put the broker's own in 2C and 2E. Update within 30 days. Recommended, not required. The August 19 notice: brokers may not...
The arrangement is not mine for once. My cousin collects vintage audio and buys it from sellers in the United States, with the occasional collectible, a piece of jewellery, coins, small valuable things of that kind. He asked me, as the...
Grape season for the US is coming, and this is the first one planned knowing the systems approach is not coming back soon. The court ruling from September last year stands since the appeal was dropped in March, so the permit only covers...
