Exporting is a privilege, not a right. U.S. companies must ensure that all their exports are conducted legally. Violate U.S. export regulations and you and you're company could be fined, banned from future exporting, or even sent to jail.

To safeguard your company from these penalties you should:

• Properly classify your products with the correct Schedule B or Harmonized Tariff Codes as well as determine whether or not your product has an Export Control Classification Number (ECCN).
• Screen your products against the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to determine if they require an export license.
• Screen all the parties in your export transactions against the government’s numerous Restricted Parties lists to make sure your not shipping to someone you shouldn’t be.

Sound difficult? It doesn't have to be. Shipping Solutions offers a variety of easy and affordable compliance solutions for your company.

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Online Export Compliance Screening

If your company is like most export companies, the biggest challenge to implementing proper export controls is finding an easy way to integrate them into your export process. If your export staff can’t easily check a customer against the Restricted Party lists, for example, it may not get done. That’s especially true if the export compliance process substantially delays the shipping process.

That’s why Shipping Solutions has created a menu of online export compliance tools that make the compliance process as easy as visiting a website. And because your export compliance needs may differ from what other companies need, we’ve made our menu of tools à la carte, so you can subscribe to only those services you actually need.

Product Classification - Our online Product Classification tool makes it easier for you and your company to identify your products’ proper Schedule B or Harmonized Schedule (HS) numbers that are required on your export documents. In addition, this tool searches the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to see if the government identifies your product as a controlled item and helps you determine the proper Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) required for export license determination.

Export Controls - Before you export your goods to another country, you need to determine whether or not you must first get an export license based on your product classification and the destination country. This online screening tool will tell you just that plus provide assistance to help you apply for an export license or other export control document if required.

Trade Party Screening - The U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) prohibit trade with specific individuals, companies, institutions and organizations. Instead of publishing all these names in a single list, each government department and agency with jurisdiction over exports publishes their own list, which means there are more than 10 lists to check!  By using our online screening tool, you can check all the U.S. lists—as well as the United Nations list, European Union list, Japanese list and Canadian list—at one time and in just seconds.

Online Import Compliance Screening

If your company is involved in importing in addition to exporting, Shipping Solutions also provides online compliance tools that will help you comply with current U.S. import regulations.

Import Controls - The U.S. government’s import regulations impose import quotas, licenses and certificates on certain goods. Our Import Controls tool identifies any import controls that may exist for your products and/or the countries from which they are originating and provides information concerning the support documentation needed to receive an import license or other control documents.

Landed Cost Calculator - Before you can accurately determine the best country to source a product, you need to know the final cost of delivering that product to your warehouse or other destination including all import duties, taxes and other government charges. In addition to providing that detail, our Landed Cost Calculator will also warn you if anti-dumping duties or countervailing duties may apply for a specific product.  Our Calculator even allows you to simultaneously compare products imported from up to four different countries so you can quickly compare costs.

Affordable Compliance Solutions

With subscriptions starting at only $1,000 a year, Shipping Solutions online compliance screening services are the easy way to make sure your exports remain compliant with U.S. export regulations.

Subscribe to one or more of our online compliance solutions now, and you’ll be up and running with the service right away.

If you’re not yet ready to subscribe, fill out our online request form or call us toll-free at 1-888-890-7447 for a FREE demo of our online compliance services. We’ll show you how easy export compliance can be!

Need More Than Just a Compliance Solution?

Our Shipping Solutions Professional export documentation and compliance software is the fast and easy way to complete your export documents, file electronically with the Automated Export System (AES), and screen your export shipments against the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and 16 different government Restricted Party lists.