Shipping Solutions Professional gives current Annual Maintenance Program (AMP) subscribers the ability to ensure that their shipments comply with current export regulations. By simply clicking on a single button, you immediately have three screening options:

• Country Document Determination. All international shipments must include the appropriate documentation to ensure Customs clearance at the port of export and the port of entry. Shipping Solutions automatically determines which documents are necessary for every shipment to help you ensure that you are complying with export and import regulations. In order for this feature to produce accurate results, make sure you have entered a country code for both the exporter and consignee. Including appropriate documentation will help ensure your goods aren’t delayed at customs, your customers aren’t paying higher duty rates than necessary, and that your company is paid fully and in a timely manner.
• Export License Determination. The U.S. government restricts or bans the export of certain goods to specific countries or entities to protect natural resources, control the proliferation of arms and nuclear weapons, and to ensure national security and regional stability. Shipping Solutions Professional allows you to screen your products based on their Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) and country of ultimate destination to help you determine if any licenses or license exceptions are needed to ship your goods. In order for this feature to produce accurate results, you must enter an ECCN number and Schedule B Number for each of your products in a shipment and a country code for both the exporter and consignee. Screening your export against the Export Administration Regulations can protect your company from fines, fees and even restrictions on exporting!
• Restricted Party Screening. Various government agencies maintain “bad guy” lists of people, organizations and countries to which it is illegal to export for one or more reasons. Shipping Solutions allows you to screen all the parties in your export transactions against these lists and notifies you of any potential matches. Screening your export against these lists can protect your company from fines, fees and even restrictions on exporting!

Choose the screening level you wish to use before you click the Go button. You have three choices for the Restricted Party Screening ranging from a “Broad” screen, which will result in a lot of matches of anything remotely similar to your shipment information, to a very restrictive “Narrow” search, which will only display exact matches.

You should choose an option that returns a few matches on most searches, which you should then review and further identify whether or not they match one or more parties in your export transaction. We recommend that you begin by setting the screening level to “Medium” and then adjusting up or down from there depending on how many results you receive.

Shipping Solutions Professional will access InterMart’s secure server and match the appropriate fields in your current shipment against the proper databases of information. In a matter of seconds, you will see a display of all potential matches. Please Note: For audit purposes, you should print out and file each compliance and screening response in case you are ever audited by Customs or another government agency.
The information for all three screening modules are monitored and updated daily, if necessary, so you always have access to timely information. However, the most current information is always published in the Federal Register.

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