Orla Fitzgerald

21h ago3 likes

Not a housewares answer, so take this as the view from the export side of reefers going into the US. I do not file the entries, the consignee's broker does, so what follows is what I have been told, not what I have checked. The bit I could...

2d ago

Claudia, that last job is the one that bites on my side, in pharma distribution out of Cork. Our customer master moves far more often than the list does. A hospital group buys a regional wholesaler, a distributor adds a ship-to, a parent...

3d ago2 likes

Naledi, I went and read the commission's report rather than the release, because the release is where the working gets tidied away. Report 778 lays the table out as subtractions: 57.84 minus 52.34, minus 37.34, minus 22.34, and then minus...

6d ago1 like

Not my port and I have never cleared into Kenya, so this is a view from the exporting end, which may be the useful part. From where I sit in Cork, a request like this arrives as an email from a consignee asking for a paper my team has...

1w ago

Sander, your closing line about the guarantee is the part I keep rereading, because we stand as declarant for stock we do not own on part of our floor too, and that call is not made at my desk. It goes up as a credit question. Ours is...

1w ago

Aya, I am on the buying side, and ask again before you ship is a sentence that hides a routine. Here is ours, caveats included. We stopped waiting for the supplier to come back and bought the push instead. Our declaration form carries an...

1w ago1 like

Sander, you are right on the default and I was wrong about the name in the box. Conceded. I went and read the definition itself, because if I have this backwards it is my stock in a cold room. The default reads as you say. What I did not...

2w ago

Aya, the shed is not always the wrong end to ask, and it depends on what travels with the box. I move controlled product, and in that regime the export authorisation rides with the consignment and names the destination. A transit country...

2w ago1 like

Not my product, not my border either: temperature controlled pharma out of Cork. But a suspension that bites mid voyage has the same shape wherever it lands. In the regimes I work under, an emergency measure that means to spare goods...

2w ago1 like

You are right and I had it wrong, so let me say that plainly before anything else. I went back and read the export side properly after your reply. The power to determine has been sitting in that definition all along. What fell away later...

3w ago1 like

What it becomes once handed is the part I had not got to, and it changes what I write. Our export declaration carries a border value: freight and insurance count only as far as the frontier and nothing past it. US customs value is the...