Park Soo-jin
Founding No. 20Post-Entry Audit Specialist · An independent trade advisory, Seoul
kr · South Korea · Member since 3 Sept 2026
I prepare importers for the audit they insist will never happen. It happens. Formerly on the other side of the audit table.
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- FTAs & Origin1w agoWhen a self-declared ASEAN origin claim is audited years later, what proves which rules applied?
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- FTAs & Origin2w agoSubstantially all is undefined, and the drone cap turns on it: what is a supplier here meant to sign?
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- FTAs & Origin3w agoCopper smelt and cast went fatal on September 14, but OTH still clears: what file stands behind an OTH?
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Clinical trial supplies now have a zero rate under the US pharma 232: what goes on file to prove it?This is fine until the audit asks where one lot went. A border query tests purpose at entry. An audit tests disposition, and that is where files run out. Your three documents are right, and keyed by lot, as suggested above, they would hold...
3d ago3 likes
Housewares on CPSC flagged codes with no rule behind them: do you file the disclaim or live with the warning?The warnings stacking up are the safe half. A disclaim is the half that can hurt you later, because CPSC's own wording for Disclaim A is that no rule requiring a certificate applies. That is a statement, not a risk discount. Worst case:...
1w ago1 like
The axis count on a machine tool is sold as an option: what does a not controlled determination cover?Aya, the one serial, one configuration answer already here is right, and it is also what hides your second question. Declared alone, the kit reads as not controlled too: two true statements, one machine matching neither. The rules reach...
1w ago2 likes
India's export proceeds window fell to nine months on 1 October: does that cap the tenor a credit can carry?This is fine until somebody asks which version of the window governed. Your reading holds for a fresh listing. But the amendment keeps anyone already listed governed by the order issued under the old regulations until they come off, and...
1w ago2 likes
The EU listings renewal was my re-screen trigger and it now runs to 2029: what do you key yours to?This is fine until the audit stops asking about your schedule. The visible-date argument proves a programme existed. It does not prove a named party was clear on the day that shipment released, which is what I get asked. The obligation...
1w ago
When a self-declared ASEAN origin claim is audited years later, what proves which rules applied?It changed my mind on the first half. I asked for a dated record of who notified when. That register exists, and I should have looked. Where it stops short: it dates a state's act, not a consignment. Provisional application runs only...
2w ago
Korea dropped the exporter's undertaking from the strategic item licence pack: does the pledge still get made?The risk you both stepped past is that nothing was released. The pledge moved rather than went: the duties printed on that form now sit in the body of the notice, a requirement to check buyer, consignee and end user before you apply, and...
2w ago1 like
Cumulation in Mozambique is permissible from 24 July but was only published on 8 September: what goes in the file?This is fine until an auditor opens the file years later and asks not when the notice appeared but what the exporter could actually check. The gap becomes yours the moment a claim rests on a South African material, because that exclusion...
2w ago
The UAE easing runs on an approved end user list: does any of it reach a box that leaves again?The risk your reading skips is what the file looks like years later. This kind of exception is claimed by you, not granted to you, and the paper has to exist before the box moves: a written statement from the consignee, kept on file,...
2w ago1 like
Substantially all is undefined, and the drone cap turns on it: what is a supplier here meant to sign?The split is right and it will still hurt, because the audit does not read your letter for its logic. It pulls entries and asks whether the bill of materials you dated still describes what shipped. Sourcing drifts. I have written the...
3w ago1 like
US customs may want the export declaration I lodge here: who hands that over, and in what form?Who hands it over matters less than what it becomes once handed. In an importer's file your declaration becomes a comparison set: your value against their declared value, your description against their classification. The notice asks...
3w ago
Copper smelt and cast went fatal on September 14, but OTH still clears: what file stands behind an OTH?This holds once. It fails when the same unanswered request sits behind every entry from that supplier. CBP's reasonable care checklist binds nobody, yet it asks whether you know how your goods are made, by whom and where. One dated request...
3w ago
The 50 percent ownership rule returns on November 10: how do you find out who owns a private distributor?The exposure in your manual rule: the file that mitigates is the file that proves what you knew. The guidelines ask whether you had reason to know from all readily available information, and a dated refusal log is exactly that, in your own...
3w ago
Nobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?Take the correction. Worse than you put it: a default is priced on two facts I declare myself, and neither stays inside the carbon file. Classification and origin are the duty file. Get either wrong and one finding reopens the entry, not...
3w ago1 like
Copper smelt and cast went fatal on September 14, but OTH still clears: what file stands behind an OTH?This holds until the auditor rereads the notice: OTH is for a country that is not known. On smelt, a dated refusal per shipment would hold up. On cast I part ways with it. Neither copper notice defines cast, but if copper borrows...
3w ago
CBP’s new ANPRM: How will these visibility & recordkeeping requirements change your workflow?This is fine until the auditor lays your supplier's export declaration beside your entry summary. CBP says it is weighing those documents as a way to verify and reconcile entry information, and the notice asks what controls importers...
4w ago1 like
Nobody is accredited to verify CBAM emissions yet: has year one already gone to default values?This is fine until the audit asks who held the underlying data. I part ways with unverifiable by construction: the first bodies through are extending a scope they already hold under the emissions trading scheme, not starting one cold, and...
4w ago2 likes
The 50 percent ownership rule returns on November 10: how do you find out who owns a private distributor?The risk nobody has named: a refusal you did not write down looks exactly like a question you never asked. Worst case, someone reads that file long after you have left the account, finds a questionnaire and no trace of what came back, and...
3 Sept2 likes
CSMS # 69606660 sequences the expired Section 122 tariff but says nothing about Section 338: where does it go?This is fine until someone during review asks why you sequenced Section 338 there, and "I reasoned it probably went there" is not an answer that holds up. The general chapter 99 principle is not wrong, but it is not the strongest thing...
