FedEx Trade Solutions
FedEx Trade Solutions
Compliance assistance for your cross-border business
Compliance assistance for your cross-border business
Compliance assistance for your cross-border business
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Trade Solutions overview
International trade rules and procedures are like a maze. You’re trying to understand your responsibilities, navigate customs and security, and stay in compliance. When you work with us, you have experienced trade specialists, extensive resources, and powerful tools at your disposal. That could lead to cost savings, reduced complexity, increased efficiency, and improved compliance.
Our comprehensive trade compliance products include:
Trade consulting
We help you identify and address specific needs through discovery and analysis.
Advisory solutions
We offer targeted guidance on a one-time or short-term basis.
Managed solutions
We provide long-term, comprehensive support for ongoing needs.
Managed trade compliance
We use innovative solutions to help you manage your internal trade compliance program.
Take advantage of FedEx Trade Solutions as a standalone offering (no need to be a FedEx customer) or to supplement other FedEx® transportation services. We can work with you to create customized solutions—and a comprehensive trade compliance experience.
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To get started, contact your sales representative.
Compliance training
With our customized recurring or focused training, you’ll learn about import and export regulations and discover best practices to help mitigate risk.
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Customized training includes:
- Product classification
- Free trade agreement certification
- Customs valuation
- Duty drawbacks
- Foreign Trade Zones
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These can help you:
- Satisfy continuing education requirements
- Demonstrate due diligence when seeking mitigation of fines and penalties
- Keep staff informed about the latest compliance updates
- Train your own internal subject matter experts to help resolve issues
- Understand the regulatory requirements of your business or products better
Compliance program evaluation
Whether you’re preparing for an audit or focused assessment or you just need to minimize risk and expense, we can evaluate your internal trade compliance program and create a customized solution.
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Solution may include:
- Internal compliance program review
- Import and export transaction audits
- Compliance training
- Risk assessment
- Trade agreement and partnership evaluation
These can help you:
- Identify improvements to your compliance program
- Mitigate compliance risk
- Adopt best practices for your shipping and customs clearance experiences
Small-business trade compliance
Get trade compliance and guidance tailored to you as a small-business owner on an as-needed basis. Our customized solution can help you improve compliance practices with a goal of reducing complexity, time, and costs, so you can focus on growing your business.
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Solution may include:
- Product classification
- Customs duty and fee calculations
- Product database creation
- Regulatory research and advice
- Import/export requirements education
- Identification of admissibility requirements for participating government agencies like the FDA, EPA, etc.
These can help you:
- Improve compliance practices
- Eliminate some potential causes of supply chain disruptions
- Understand customs duties and taxes
- Understand import and export requirements
- Launch new products
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Export compliance
When it comes to exports, missing one little detail can cost you big. Tell us which export markets you’re considering, and we’ll assign a specialist who can help you with compliance, security, classification, and more.
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Solution may include:
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule/Schedule B product classification
- Export procedure documentation
- Export commodity classification
- Product commodity jurisdiction
- Export license determination
- Export declaration audits
These can help you:
- Avoid the risks of dealing with sanctioned or restricted parties
- Determine eligibility for export
- Reduce the risk of export fines and violations
Government-trade partnership programs
Improve your trade compliance and security by participating in government-trade partnership programs. We’ll identify compliance risk and provide recommendations to help mitigate those risks. We’ll also help you determine which programs are right for you and work with your supply chain partners on eligibility, application, annual reviews, and recertification.
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Solution may include:
- Application for membership in other countries’ security programs
- Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) enrollment and review
- Facilitating annual reviews and recertifications
- Writing procedure manuals and customized training
- Self-assessment training
- Supply chain partner solicitation
These can help you:
- Mitigate risk of noncompliance, caged shipments, and fines
- Eliminate some potential causes of supply chain disruptions
- Determine potential eligibility in additional government programs
- Secure multi-country mutual recognition
Trade agreement programs
When you take advantage of free trade agreements, including the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), it can put you on the fast track to savings and growth. We can help you determine your eligibility and navigate the complexities of regulations and documentation.
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Solution may include:
- Supplier solicitations and verifications
- Product eligibility determination
- Certification of eligibility
- Producing and managing Certificates of Origin
- Facilitating annual reviews, recertifications, and the certification process
These can help you:
- Mitigate risk of noncompliance, caged shipments, and fines
- Secure multi-country mutual recognition
- Eliminate some potential causes of supply chain disruptions
- Demonstrate a corporate culture of compliance
- Find potential opportunities to reduce duties and taxes
- Identify which products are eligible for free trade
- Create recordkeeping best practices
Customs bonds
Customs bonding requirements can be complex and time consuming. We can help make it simpler to select and secure the right bond. Plus, we’ll monitor your bond to help keep your business compliant.
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Solution may include:
- Calculation of the appropriate bond amount to cover your business
- Managing bond changes and updates
- Proactive bond activity reporting and alerts
- Automatic annual bond renewal
These can help you:
- Avoid supply chain delays
- Achieve bond accuracy
- Get competitive bond pricing
- Verify your business has the correct coverage
- Access surety bond arrangements
- Increase your financial control through Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) and/or periodic monthly statements (PMS)
Product classification
Whether you have a single item or an entire catalog, our team can review documentation from your previous imports and exports to help you classify your products to help identify and correct overpaid or underpaid duties.
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Solution may include:
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule or Schedule B product classification
- Finding and fixing over- or underpaid duties from previous imports and exports
- Product commodity jurisdiction
- PGA determination
- Product database creation
- Additional duty provisions
- Trade agreement eligibility
- Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) determination
- Export license identification
- Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD) determination
- Binding rulings
These can help you:
- Increase compliance with U.S. import and export regulations
- Reduce clearance delays
- Mitigate exposure to import and export violations
- Calculate estimated duties and taxes to determine landed costs
Foreign Trade Zones
Importing products and materials means paying duties, tariffs, and the other costs associated with bringing goods into the U.S. It can also generate complex logistics and inventory challenges from products and components arriving in multiple shipments. When you work with one of our specialists, they can help you determine if importing goods into a Foreign Trade Zone is the right solution to help you reduce import costs and inefficiencies to be more competitive with other companies in the U.S. and around the world.
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Solution may include:
- Establishment of an FTZ
- FTZ administration
- Use of existing FTZs
- FTZ entry filing
- Distribution options
These can help you:
- Avoid duties on waste, scrap, and yield loss
- Establish weekly entry procedures to reduce Merchandise Processing Fees and speed customs clearance
- Avoid duties on exports from the U.S.
- Reduce property taxes in some states through exempt merchandise
- Improve compliance, inventory tracking, and quality control
- Eliminate duties on zone-to-zone transfers
- Delay the payment of duties until removal from an FTZ
- Increase protection against theft with stringent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) security requirements
Duty and tax recovery
You may be eligible to recover money from duties and/or taxes you paid. We can help you identify opportunities, make appropriate requests, and navigate diverse and complex customs programs. We’ll also be there to help you work on improving compliance, minimize duties, and recover duty overpayments.
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Solution may include:
- Duty drawback
- Post-summary corrections
- Reconciliation
- Duty protest filing
- Product classification review
- Trade agreement eligibility review
These can help you:
- Reclaim duties, taxes, and fees on exported goods
- Improve entry accuracy
- Recover overpaid duties
- Enhance your compliance program
- Increase your profitability
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