Importer of Record Manager

Corporate Customs Broker License # 14423

Components of the Importer of Record Manager include --

Pre-clearance Planning	Import Security Filing - setting the entry information at the time of overseas' shipment
	Foreign Trade Zone Specialty - in Central PA
	Import Research -Optimal logistics, US agency compliance, pro forma invoice components
	Quality documentation, classification, and valuation planning

Shared Customs Brokerage Program	Significantly lower the clearance charge with YOUR broker
	Increase your level of compliance with CBP and other agencies
	Discount rates to other HCB courses & reference library
	Learn what it takes to get better service from your Customs broker

Purchase order systematized	Guidance for overseas' supplier
	Built on HCB PO Wizard©
	Electronic checklist to accompany order


Supplier's Invoice guidance	Valuation - what is dutiable, what is not
	Classification of goods before they're shipped
	What needs to be on the invoice
	Means to reduce US Customs examinations

US Import requirements	Special product requirements
	Participating Government Agency preparation
	Country of origin marking
	Intellectual Property Rights

Compliance Matters	How to request a binding ruling?
	Recordkeeping
	Reference and publication library
	Consultant network

INCOTERMS responsibility of the buyer	Transportation costs, service requirements
	Risk management
	Packing and crating

Mechanics	Operations Software Formats
	What your Customs broker needs?
	Shipment communications
	Entry type options - structuring imports to save duties
	What you should expect of your Customs broker?

Import transaction procedural formats ....
- To accompany the purchase order for your supplier's guidance
- To systematize import operations procedures
- To assist your Customs broker

Reference "workbook" of import transaction information

Arranged by topical interest
Import operational "ready reference" information and aids

Specific functions H.C. Bennett Company offers relating to the Importer of Record Manager

Guidance in the formulation of Contracts for the Sale of International Goods --

Services include ... Pro Forma invoice components...Incoterms of Sale significance ... Banking and Letter of Credit guidance ... Sales literature assistance to gain business with the U.S. prospect.

	U.S. Logistics Assistance. Shipping costs can be of significance when any "C" or "D" Incoterms of sale are quoted (such as CIF or DDP). We provide the research to determine the optimal U.S. port of entry, international shipping costs, marine insurance, U.S. warehousing/storage costs, and U.S. inland distribution costs.
	As Licensed U.S. Customs Brokers, H.C. Bennett Company (corporate license 14423) furnishes U.S. Government Requirements including ... your invoice's valuation - what is dutiable and what is not ... classification of your goods before importation ... intellectual property right regulations ...country of origin marking ... invoice requirements.

Mock Customs Audits

... for importers that want a "self assessment" of their ability to conform to the guidance of the Customs Modernization Act (Mod Act). This assists importers in complying with Customs' doctrine of Reasonable Care

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Training ... Six Courses for International Trade

Library ... Support for Import/Export Operations

Logistics ... Eliminate the Middleman

Trade Manager ... Importer / Exporter of Record Management