{"id":783,"date":"2017-01-24T01:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T01:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/cc\/?p=783"},"modified":"2022-09-22T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:28:57","slug":"importing-into-the-united-states-as-a-foreign-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/importing-into-the-united-states-as-a-foreign-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing as a Foreign Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a foreign company and want to import into United States? \u00a0Unlike the EU, Canada and Australia, sales taxes are not assessed during importation to the US. This means you do NOT need to register a Federal Tax ID when importing. Instead, Cargocentric\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can help apply for a Foreign Importer ID. The process is so fast and easy that we offer this service<strong> free of charge<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get started, please send us the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwlcorp.com\/downloads\/poa.pdf\">Customs Power of Attorney<\/a>\u00a0(POA)\u00a0<\/span><b>&#8211; Leave the Tax ID blank (item 4)<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documentation proving that the persons signing the POA\u00a0are officers of the company.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government issued IDs of the persons signing the POA.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Copy of Articles of Incorporation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All Customs compliance (including matters related to duty and taxes) are the foreign company&#8217;s responsibility. However,\u00a0you still need to declare the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/document\/directives\/3550-079a-ultimate-consignee-time-entry-release\">ultimate consignee<\/a>, aka the final destination.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us if you have additional questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a foreign company and want to import into United States? \u00a0Unlike the EU, Canada and Australia, sales taxes are not assessed during importation to the US. This means you do NOT need to register a Federal Tax ID when importing. Instead, Cargocentric\u00a0can help apply for a Foreign Importer ID. The process is so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cargocentric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}