International Trade Compliance - How are you folks doing it?

Legacy Contributor

Good Evening!

 

I was wondering if folks could share any examples on how they are handling international trade compliance / shipping requirements…

 

For example:

 

• Under virtually no circumstances can you ship stuff to “Embargoed Countries” like Cuba, Iran, Syria. So how do you “prevent” that?  Some have said “leave the country out CRS045”.  But I’m not sure what would happen if you removed a country that you already had history with (like if Switzerland went rouge tomorrow and we had to cut them off).

 

Question: How do you keep “Addresses” from being created for those countries?

 

• In an increasing level of complexity…sometimes I can sell a particular Items to a country, like Paper to China, but I cannot sell Machine Guns to China. We know what is allowed based on the Department of Commerce classification (ECCN / EAR) for the Item.

 

Question:  How do you keep some Items out of a Customer’s Order based on and Address / Item Classification combination?

 

I’m sure there are other examples of managing “trade compliance”, but I wanted to start with seeing what folks are doing for these ones.

 

Thanks,

Steve

Legacy Contributor

Steve,

I have a similar question. We are currently researching and preparing for a similar scenario, but with limits to selling to California. I'm thinking of trying to utilize assortments, but not sure if this will work or not. Hopefully someone else has a good suggestion.