Trade: Importing
and Exporting
Importing Into The United States - A Guide for Commercial Importers
Author: United States Customs Service
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: United States Customs Service
Copyright: 2002 Edition
ISBN: 0894990772
Who Will Find This Book Essential?
Individuals and business looking to import products
into the USA.
Individual wanting to know their legal responsibilties
importing products into the USA.
The book will not provide specific information on
Essential Oil importation.
What's Inside
"These modernization provisions have fundamentally
altered the relationship between importers and the Customs Service
by shifting to the importer the legal responsibility for declaring
the value, classification, and rate of duty applicable to entered
merchandise."
Explains the process of importing goods into the
U.S., including informed compliance, invoices, duty assessments, classification
and value, marking requirements and more.
Table of Contents
Customs Mission and Organization
1. Organization
Ports of Entry; Foreign Countries
Suggestions to the Exporter
Entry of Goods
2. Entry Process
3. Right To Make Entry
4. Examination of Goods and Entry Documents
5. Packing of Goods—Commingling
Informed Compliance
6. Definition
7. Reasonable Care Checklists
8. Compliance Assessment/Compliance Measurement
9. Notice to Small-Business Importers
Invoices
10. Commercial Invoice
11. Other Invoices
12. Frequent Errors in Invoicing
Assessment of Duty
13. Dutiable Status of Goods
14. Containers or Holders
15. Temporary Free Importations
16. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
17. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
18. Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
19. Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA)
20. U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Agreement
21. U.S.- Jordan Free Trade Area Agreement
22. Compact of Free Association (FAS)
23. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
24. U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBPTA)
25. Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
26. Drawback—Refunds of Duties
Classification and Value
27. Classification—Liquidation
28. Conversion of Currency
29. Transaction Value
30. Transaction Value—Identical or Similar Merchandise
31. Other Bases: Deductive and Computed Value
32. Rules of Origin
Marking
33. Country of Origin Marking
34. Special Marking Requirements
35. Marking—False Impression
36. User Fees
Special Requirements
37. Prohibitions, Restrictions, and Other Agency Requirements
38. Alcoholic Beverages
39. Motor Vehicles and Boats
40. Import Quotas
Fraud
41. Civil and Criminal Enforcement Provisions
Foreign Trade Zones
42. Foreign Trade Zones
Appendix
Invoices; Additional Information; Customs Valuation;
Other Forms; Other Agencies
