Getting Your Papers Ready For Shipping Across A Border
Shipping across any international border is always something which is more complicated than shipping within the country that you live in
. One of the main reasons that it is more complicated is that much more paperwork is required in order to ship across an international border. Your California delivery service will probably prepare most of the paperwork for you that you're going to need in order to have a successful international delivery, but it is still good to familiarize yourself with this type of documentation if international shipping is going to be a regular part of your business practices.
When you're shipping across any kind of border, you need to make sure that you've included an invoice and a BOL with your courier. When you do this, you should probably include copies of the document inside the package on top of the ones that your courier will be carrying with them. Despite their best efforts, sometimes couriers lose documents or they shuffle them and can't find the correct ones to correspond to the right shipment. If you have extra copies in the package, then you can ensure that the border agents can find the paperwork that they need to approve the transit of your package across the border.
The invoice contains all the information about the goods themselves, and the BOL contains the information about the shipping. These are both important for the agents working at the border. They need to know what is coming into their country, and where it is going. They also need to know its value. This helps them make sure that all of the applicable local laws are being adhered to.
There are other documents which you might need to include when shipping certain types of goods which aren't going to apply in most cases, but which you still need to know about. These are the papers that you need when shipping under the terms of trade agreements like NAFTA. There are also special papers you might need when shipping larger quantities and values of products, such as import/export licenses.
When you're preparing to ship orders across an international border, you need to be sure to use the best resource that you have available to you, which is your courier company. A problem in the documentation can mean your delivery getting delayed for massive amounts of time at the border, and they can help you avoid that.
by: Carry Cox
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