Customs Services
Helping Global Shippers Work More Confidently with Global Business Partners
Understanding how complicated and risky the global trading environment can be for U.S. shippers of all sizes and across all industries, DB Schenker is introducing a new product that will help companies expand into new international markets—and work with overseas trading partners—with confidence. Using Export Credit Insurance, U.S. exporters can...
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License Management System – Taking the Hassle Out of Organization
In logistics, nothing moves unless you have the right license for it. As your supply chain expands, so does the complexity of licenses needed to import and export goods. It can be challenging to track countless licenses and to ensure that none are expired and all are within compliance. Failure...
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Dangerous Goods Declarations and Packaging – Taking the Hassle out of Exporting Compliance
DB Schenker’s Dangerous Goods Declarations and Packaging offers users an online documentation preparation system with built in regulatory logic to provide solutions for creating compliant shipping paperwork. This operating system provides users with paperwork options that are currently compliant for shipping all dangerous goods and templates on how to properly...
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Shipping Flowers this Valentine’s Day? Here’s How to Prep Your Shipment for CBP Inspections
Whether they’re sending roses, chrysanthemums, tulips, or mixed bouquets, the millions of Americans who will shower their loved ones and sweethearts with flowers on Valentine’s Day want to know that those beautiful arrangements are free of bugs and pests. To make this goal a reality, U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
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Three Things You Need to Know about Importing Chocolate
When you give someone chocolates for Valentine’s Day, you want those sweets to melt their hearts. What you don’t want is for those chocolates to melt out on the dock while U.S. Customs & Border Control and/or the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) decide whether to let them into...
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Schenker of Canada Limited Launches State-of-the-Art Customs Operating System
Improved Technology Facilitates Better Trade Efficiencies and Compliance. The Customs Brokerage industry has evolved significantly over the past half-century. What started out as simple duty collection at the border has grown to managing trade compliance for Canadian and Non Resident Importers to the tune of $1.07 trillion CAD last year...
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Changes to CBP Reconciliation Program scheduled for January 2017
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be implementing several changes to the reconciliation entry program as part of the conversion to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). These changes will be deployed in January 2017 on a date yet to be determined by CBP. CBP will no longer enter a...
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FDA Food Facility Registration Due Before December 31, 2016
The Bioterrorism Act and Food Safety Modernization Act requires all domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food for human or animal consumption in the U.S. to register with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The requirement includes food, food ingredients, and dietary supplements. Registrations must...
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How to Build a Robust Compliance Strategy So You Can Focus on Your Core Business
Reducing total import duty burdens, staying compliant, and minimizing the risk of penalties and shipment delays is an increasing challenge for today’s importers. As the regulatory environment becomes more complex, the list of steps that shippers have to take to stay compliant grows exponentially. Here at DB Schenker Customs Services,...
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U.S. Customs Ratchets Up its Enforcement Efforts – Is Your Company Ready?
Four steps every company should take right now to ensure a smooth import compliance process for the future. After dedicating much of the last several years to modernizing its business processes and launching the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)—the primary system through which the trade community reports import and export data,...
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