When choosing Incoterms, importers and exporters must develop their skills in recognizing differences. Not all Incoterms are the same.

When you’re transporting goods through multiple countries and dealing with different languages, customs, and regulations, conflicts and misunderstandings are bound to happen. Incoterms help reduce misunderstandings by clarifying exactly what each party is responsible for in a global trade contract.

Food safety requirements help us enjoy our favorite meals without getting sick. But they’re often challenging for food importers to follow. 

The U.S. government doesn’t want goods coming into the country if they’ve been produced with forced labor. It’s placed a variety of legal demands on importers because of this. Complying with these obligations is essential if you import goods into the United States. Otherwise, your shipments could be detained, returned to their origin port, or seized entirely.

The Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Global Business Identifier (GBI) program is an innovative program that’s initiative formed from the challenges associated with the Manufacturer/Shipper Identification Number (MID) and its lack of data quality and uniqueness. CBP hopes the new program will give them better visibility into the supply chain and result in products moving through customs faster.