Forwarders to the rescue, how can importers get their duty rate?
Duty rates connect to the harmonized codes. Importers ought to obtain a pro-forma invoice reflecting their orders, containing the terms of sales description & value per item as well as the harmonized code number (HS Code#). If you know your products well, please refer to the Harmonized Code link below:
https://uscensus.prod.3ceonline.com/
Once the HS code is determined, importers have now the means to find their import duty rate by clicking to the following link:
http://www.usitc.gov/tata/hts/bychapter/index.htm
Since you are so attentive to my blog and for sure, you will use our freight company to import or export, here is the kicker
http://www.dutycalculator.com/new-import-duty-and-tax-calculation/
Overseas Auto Shipping
For obvious reasons, not many shippers utilize international air freight services to get their vehicles overseas. Although, ETC International Freight System is sporadically air freighting autos, we find ourselves moving jet-skis, quads, quad-skis, off-road vehicles & motorcycles.
By calling us at 1-310-632-255 or emailing us at
Sales@etcinternational.com, we can price you any inland USA to your international airport of destination within the hour or so. Any import air request to fly a vehicle back into the USA, we require at least 24 hours to get you a pricing.
Not all vehicles can be imported into the USA meeting the Customs, EPA, DOT regulations.
Please refer to the following link to learn if your vehicle is compatible with the US market:
Importing a vehicle (Customs link)
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/basic_trade/importing_car.xml
If you wish to have your imported vehicle meeting the customs, DOT, EPA regulations, they are
certified garages offering these services at elevated costs.
Shippers with vehicles for export have other choices than just air freighting.
ETC International Freight System offers car consolidation services, where your car is shipped with a few other vehicles inside 1x40’ HQ ocean container. Each vehicle is blocked & braced securely & whether on the container floor or ramped. Consolidated rates are inexpensive & available to some destinations. This is a viable method of shipping to be explored against other methods.
On that note, other shippers chose the roll on roll off service (bulk ship) where vehicles are not containerized but driven inside the belly of a ship. For destinations requiring trans-shipments, the second vessel parks your car on an upper deck position (exposed to the bad weather). This is also a viable option, priced reasonably,enabling the receiving party to avoid more important port fees than when consolidated.
For exported vehicles that will at some point return to the U.S., the DMV Certification of Exportation Form will be helpful to importers. This will prevent the DMV from levying years of registration fees and fines once the vehicle returns. Once you request a quote from ETC International Freight System, we can direct on how accessing the form or simply email it to you.
Shipping household goods to worldwide destinations
Australia tops it off. Australian customs will request for Unaccompanied Personal Effects to
fill out a form & whether you are shipping via door to door air courier to door to
airport, or ocean freight. Ask us by calling 1-800-383-3157 or email us Sales@etcinternational.com
Get your statement for unaccompanied personal effects to Australia, click the button below &
populate the tablet to receive pricing & statement. Contact ETC International Freight System at www.etcinternational.com
From SFGate source
(08-19) 09:45 PDT OAKLAND -- Activists protesting Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip converged on the Port of Oakland on Sunday afternoon in an effort to block the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship, the second such action in two days.
The activists formed pickets at several Port gates to prevent workers from unloading the Piraeus, a vessel from Zim Integrated Shipping Services, Israel's largest shipping firm. The ship docked at 5 p.m. at the port's Oakland International Container Terminal, and protesters communicating via Twitter said port employees were honoring their picket lines.
"It's my understanding that labor did not report to work for the 7 p.m. shift at the Oakland International Terminal," port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur said Sunday evening. "All other port operations are unaffected."
With tensions still high between the Israeli government and Hamas, the Piraeus has become the focus of attention for Bay Area activists.
Organizing under the motto "Block the Boat," they first expected the ship to reach Oakland early Saturday morning. Word that the ship's arrival had been delayed led activists to rally at the port Saturday afternoon instead, in a large procession waving Palestinian flags and signs reading "Let Gaza Live."
Then, as the ship neared the Golden Gate on Sunday afternoon, tracked by the online service Marine Traffic, activists returned to the port.
Organizers describe the action as part of a larger international movement to boycott Israeli goods and force companies to divest from the country.
