Global Sourcing Logistics: How to Manage Risk and Gain Competitive Advantage in a Worldwide Marketplace

• Foreign inspection fees

• Foreign port charges for CBP examination and no-load

containers

• International transportation charges (air, ocean, and

ground transportation)

• Ad valorem duties and taxes based on import value,

specific duties and taxes based on import quantity, and

compound duties based on both value and quantity

• Merchandise processing fees based on .21 percent of

import value

• Harbor maintenance fee for ocean shipments based on

.125 percent of import value

• Anti-dumping fees based on CBP investigation into fair

market price value methods, countervailing duty fees

based on CBP investigation into foreign bounties

grants, and subsidies paid to foreign vendors that may

affect the price paid or payable

• Security manifest fees

• Fuel surcharge ...