Drop Shipment Customs Clearance: The Triangle Problem
You buy from a manufacturer in Taiwan. You sell to a customer in Brazil. The obvious efficiency is to have Taiwan ship straight to Brazil, because routing forty switches through your warehouse in the Netherlands adds three weeks and two customs events for no reason. So you ask your supplier to drop ship. It saves […]
Multi-Country IT Deployment: 5 Things That Change at Scale
Two hundred servers. Fifteen countries. One go-live date. The instinct is to treat a multi-country IT deployment as one shipment repeated fifteen times. It is not, and the projects that run late are usually the ones planned that way. Carra Globe sells into this problem, so we have a commercial interest in how you answer […]
Your Customer Won’t Be Importer of Record: What Now?
Your customer won’t be importer of record. The purchase order is signed, the delivery date is agreed, and two weeks before the equipment ships their operations lead sends a short email: we cannot be the importer of record on this. It reads like an obstacle. It is usually a reasonable position, arrived at for reasons […]
What Cargo Insurance Does Not Cover on an IT Shipment
A rack of switches is sitting at a bonded warehouse in its third week. Nobody eligible was named as importer, the entry cannot be filed, and storage is accruing daily. The goods are insured, under the broadest standard cover available. And none of it helps, because nothing has happened to the goods. That gap is […]
South Africa EPR: Why the Importer Is Usually the Producer
A shipment of servers clears Durban. Duty paid, VAT settled, the NRCS letter and the ICASA certificate both in the file. From a customs perspective the job is finished. From a regulatory perspective it has just started. By placing that equipment on the South African market, somebody became a producer, with registration, reporting and recycling […]
EOR and IOR on the Same Shipment: Which One Are You Missing?
A quote request lands: “Please quote incoterms DDP + EOR + IOR from Denmark to Brazil.” Three acronyms, one shipment. Most people reading that either think it is redundant, or quietly wonder whether they have been missing one of them on every shipment so far. This page exists to settle that question and nothing else. […]
Your Small Shipment Already Has an Importer of Record
Six access points. One box, fifty by fifty by forty-five centimetres, twelve point eight kilos. Total value under three thousand dollars. Going by courier from Denmark to Brazil. Almost nobody asks whether they need an importer of record for a small shipment like that, because it does not feel like the kind of shipment that […]
Importing Equipment With No Sale: Customs Value and the IOR
A US IT provider ships eleven company laptops to client employees in Canada. The laptops stay the client’s property, on long-term loan for several years. Nothing is sold. The client does not want to register with the customs authority, and that is the entire reason they are looking for help. Importing equipment with no sale […]
WEEE Producer Obligations: When the Importer Becomes the Producer
CE marking asks whether a product meets the applicable EU product requirements. WEEE asks a different question entirely: who is responsible for its end-of-life obligations. And the answer, more often than importers expect, is you. The word doing the damage is “producer”. In ordinary usage it means the company that made the thing. Under the […]
CE Marking Importer Obligations: What You Are Responsible For
Most explanations of CE marking are written for manufacturers. That is understandable, since the manufacturer does the engineering work and signs the declaration. It is also why CE marking importer obligations are so often misunderstood, and why so many importers arrive at the subject believing their part is simply to check the mark is there. […]