INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS

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Land transportation of cargo is the mobilization of merchandise on vehicles.

Any local or national transport can be provided EXPRESSLY, which is when the vehicle only and exclusively picks up and delivers your load, or CONSOLIDATED, this requires more programming time for the collection and delivery since you have to wait for the quota to be filled. vehicle to start the route, here the times are subject to the route, but by sharing the space the cost of the service is reduced, the land transport of 20 'containers can also be consolidated.

LOCAL: It is the one that we provide within a main city. Axis: we pick up and deliver in your location or to pick up at your warehouse and deliver at the airport, port, or to your customer warehouse.

NATIONAL: Picking up at your warehouse or location and delivering to the airport or to the port for shipments by sea LCL / Consolidated or FCL / In containers or also if you have a national service.

LOAD: If your company does not have the personnel to load or lift the forklift, at CLM Cargo we provide it, it is only to have it present before loading.

The United States has an extensive network of roads and highways, making it an important country for overland trade. Below are some of the major overland trade routes from the United States:

• Interstate Route 95: This is one of the major overland trade routes on the east coast of the United States, connecting major cities such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington DC. This route is widely used for the transportation of goods, such as manufactured products, chemicals and foodstuffs.

• Interstate 10: This route connects the east coast with the west coast of the United States, and passes through major cities such as Jacksonville, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, Tucson and Los Angeles. This route is widely used for the transportation of goods, such as agricultural products, chemicals and petroleum.

• Interstate 80: This is another important route that connects the east coast with the west coast of the United States, and passes through important cities such as New York, Chicago, Omaha, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. This route is widely used for the transportation of goods, such as manufactured products, chemicals and petroleum.

• Interstate 35: This route connects the Mexican border with the Canadian border and passes through major cities such as Laredo, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Kansas City and Minneapolis. This route is widely used for the transportation of goods, such as agricultural products, chemicals and manufactured goods.
  

By handling an integral logistics or complete package, we can offer you a door-to-door service, verifying and keeping up to date the import requirements of the cargo you want to bring, avoiding delays and extra costs in the processes.

It is very important that you bear in mind that the excellent provision of logistics services depends on the union and coordination of all the parties involved in the chain; Knowing the cargo data in advance will make the times and costs stay within budget.

In order to define how to optimally transport merchandise in time and costs, we must have the following basic information available:

Depending on the origin and the HS CODE or tariff heading of the product, we will have tariff benefits by taking advantage of the different trade agreements that Colombia has signed with different countries and we will know the import requirements in Colombia.

How we are going to do it efficiently and profitably will depend on the origin and destination, the weight / volume, the time it takes for the mode of transport to make its journey and the cost of the same, if by courier, courier with change of modality, air, combined (air and sea LCL), loose cargo (LCL), container (FCL), break bulk (LCL); It will also give us what type of national transport we are going to quote and use.

The tariff heading will give us the import and export requirements at the origin and destination.

Keep in mind that the success and promptness in the provision of the service depends on you providing the complete information and on time, any delay that is generated by the lack of information or others is the responsibility of the client.

To EXPORT from COLOMBIA, the exporter must be a common regime either natural or legal person, it cannot be a simplified regime, companies are already common regime, in both cases the exporter must be authorized by the DIAN to act as 'Customs User', Said authorization is registered in the RUT, box 53 obligation 10 of Customs User, and in box 54 the codes 22 and 23 of exporter and importer respectively, this authorization is requested before the DIAN and it does not have any cost nor does it represent additional obligations. Only one authorization, companies that are not registered as customs users and in the corporate purpose of the Chamber of Commerce do not have an importer or exporter must modify their incorporation document and register it with the Chamber of Commerce.

For dispatches by courier it is not necessary to be a common regime. In any of the cases (cargo or courier) it is recommended that you dispatch the merchandise with a certificate of origin so that your client pays less taxes at the destination.

Some imports of products or raw materials in certain countries have import requirements such as records, licenses and / or minimum descriptions, labeling standards, etc. To know what applies to your cargo it is necessary that you provide us with the tariff position or HS CODE of the products to be exported prior to the shipment of the merchandise and the data of your client to validate their documentation with our agent at destination.

In the case of "Textiles, Footwear, Garments and Manufactures" for most of the countries with which Colombia has trade agreements, they must be labeled indicating data of the exporter, data of the importer, composition, washing instructions, size and made in, before production it is recommended to have the label validated.

For countries like MEXICO, the entry of clothing is restricted, the quantities, weights and maximum values ​​per dispatch must be taken into account, it may be that the importer at destination requires an IMPORT PADRON, this is a Mexican company that has a permit or special license to import textiles. Ecuador and Brazil are also complex destinations for the shipment of clothing, so it is also necessary to verify import restrictions and requirements before shipment.

The documentation filed is valid for 1 year unless the power of attorney is specific.

For operations by port, the Port Companies have approximately 48 hours to file clients.

Colombia has some additional requirements for the importation of certain types of products such as products for human or animal consumption, used machinery, yellow machinery, textiles, security cameras, medical equipment, vehicles, among others. We will process your import license or registration before the VUCE (Single Window of Foreign Trade).

In addition to the basic documents requested, the client must present the technical data sheet of the product to be filed, photographs and other required documentation depending on the procedure being processed.

Filing in the VUCE system for import registration and license procedures takes approximately 1 business day, the acceptance time of the registration or license is subject to the entity with which the procedure is carried out, which can take between 3 and 8 business days.

CLM Cargo acts as an intermediary before government entities, the client is the one who guarantees the veracity of the information about the nature of the goods.

We help you in Colombia to register companies at the VUCE with the Anti-Narcotics Police for export processes and with the Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC) for import processes.

Colombia has some benefits for the export of certain products.

The affidavits are valid for 2 years and are prepared by product and composition of the same, the certificates of origin are processed for export or dispatch and relate to the information enshrined in the sales invoice.

Filing in the VUCE system for affidavits and certificates of origin takes approximately 1 business day, the time for acceptance of the certificate varies according to the destination of the cargo, which can take between 2 and 4 business days.

CLM Cargo acts as an intermediary with government entities, the client is the one who guarantees the veracity of the information about the nature of the goods.

The dynamics of business and the market are constantly changing, sometimes you can see yourself full of stock or merchandise to sell and other times with low inventory or no merchandise, if you had this in a warehouse under your charge, with 24/7 surveillance, personnel, public services, insurance and everything that entails, the fixed cost can affect your budget, for this reason in CLM Cargo as your 3PL ally we offer you “CLM Storage”, where in an outsourced way and with the cost subject to the space you occupy you will not see your budget affected by high fixed costs, additionally if you require it, we put our staff at your entire disposal for everything related to the packing and packing of your dispatches or "picking and packing" for your local, national or Ecommerce sales, so you will only be paying proportional to what you consume.

The dynamics of business and the market are constantly changing, sometimes you can see yourself full of stock or merchandise to sell and other times with low inventory or no merchandise, if you had this in a warehouse under your charge, with 24/7 surveillance, personnel, public services, insurance and everything that entails, the fixed cost can affect your budget, for this reason in CLM Cargo as your 3PL ally we offer you “CLM Storage”, where in an outsourced way and with the cost subject to the space you occupy you will not see your budget affected by high fixed costs, additionally if you require it, we put our staff at your entire disposal for everything related to the packing and packing of your dispatches or "picking and packing" for your local, national or Ecommerce sales, so you will only be paying proportional to what you consume.

In our warehouses we offer loading and unloading services, forklift service, cross docking distribution, inventory control, merchandise readiness (picking and packing), packaging, repackaging, product classification by design, pre-inspection, unmarking, remarking, ticketing, folding, ironing, packing garments and separating seconds.

In CLM Cargo with our storage service we offer you different times for the clearance of your merchandise, the options to store your cargo while you do the import process are:

This type of storage is focused on storing imported goods that have not been legalized and that will later be cleared for sale and distribution at the national level or will not be nationalized, but will be re-shipped or exported to another country. Our double qualification in the free regime as Industrial User of goods and services and Support User allows us to offer a comprehensive service.

Additionally, and thanks to our qualification, we can bring your merchandise on consignment and as you nationalize, you enter the cargo into your inventory, without affecting your accounting.

In Colombia, the importation of textiles is regulated, or it is done in advance or it is mobilized to this type of storage.

Some of the advantages of storing in a Free Trade Zone or In-Bond warehouse in Colombia are:

• Indefinite storage time, after 2 years of storage a prior license must be presented.
• Possibility of partial nationalization of the merchandise in an unlimited time.
• Increased cash flow since you can nationalize when you really need it.
• The merchandise during its stay in our warehouse has the benefit of not applying the payment of taxes.
• Inventories can be written off and merchandise destroyed if they are worthless. The waste from the production process can be removed for destruction or can be sold according to the value you want.
• It is possible that your company sells goods to other companies according to the modality they are using; such as sales to In Bond, Onboard Provisions Deposits for Consumption, Transformation or Assembly Deposits, PlanVallejo, among others. In these cases, you do not have to nationalize the property, but proceed according to the special procedures that each of these customs modalities contemplate.
• Capital goods, parts and pieces can be temporarily withdrawn from the Free Trade Zone for repair in Colombia, without the need to establish policies. In these cases, they must be subject to the deadlines authorized by customs regulations.
• Free Zone can be used to comply with export commitments depending on whether it is companies that use Plan Vallejo, Industrial Processing Warehouses and others, being able to export these goods to Free Zone.
• Customs transit (DTA) and multimodal transit (OTM) operations are authorized, from international ports and airports to the Free Trade Zone, as well as between free zones.
• Dispatches abroad without doing export customs procedures.
• Users can re-dispatch merchandise abroad without customs formalities, since for the purposes they have not been subjected to a customs modality, either due to an error in the dispatch by the supplier, physical inspection of the cargo not satisfactory by part of the importer (Quality Control), deterioration of the load in international transport or expiration of the useful life of the product.

To these warehouses we bring any type of merchandise except fabrics, manufactures and accessories unless an advance import declaration has been presented, the time to legalize the merchandise is 1 month + 1 month of extension and if the load has not been legalized in this time in addition to taxes, a ransom is paid.

Some of the advantages of storing in customs warehouses or fiscal warehouses are:

• Possibility of partial nationalizations during the mentioned period.
• Increased cash flow since you can nationalize when you really need it.
• The merchandise during its stay in our warehouse has the benefit of not applying the payment of taxes.
• Once your cargo is cleared, or for your national cargo, we offer you CLM Cargo Simple Storage.

This type of storage is to store national goods or imported goods that are already legalized or have paid their customs taxes in Miami, Medellin, Bogota, Cali, Cartagena and Barranquilla.

In any of our warehouses the service is generated by month or fraction; Before removing the total load, you must be safe, keep in mind that, after more than six months without canceling the storage of your merchandise, and you have not reported, we inform you that destruction or use of said merchandise, since, by generating occupation of our warehouses without canceling their respective warehouses, you affect the normal development of our corporate purpose.

Cargo insurance covers your goods in the event of a loss.

What should you do in case of loss?

If at any time you have a loss, these are some of the documents with which you must support the insurer the fact:

1. Formal letter of claim, detailing the circumstances of time, manner and place, type and quantity of merchandise affected and amount of the loss.
2. Commercial invoice
3. Packing list
4. Bill of lading 
5. Ocean freight bill 
6. Bill of lading 
7. Customs broker's pre-inspection report to clear the cargo
8. Record of entry and/or withdrawal of goods EIR issued at port upon delivery to inland carrier
9. Import declaration 
10. Inspection report from the customs authority 
11. Photographic and/or filmic record showing the totality of the damaged merchandise. 
12. Inland Freight Forwarding
13. Cargo Manifest 
14. Inland Freight Invoice 
15. Letter of claim to the carrier (quantifying loss) or to whoever is considered responsible for the loss and its response, within the terms provided by the contract of carriage or the law.
16. 16. Inventory report establishing the damaged merchandise.
17. Version of the facts of the driver and/or transporter, confirming that the damage occurred during the unloading of the vehicle.
18. Version of the facts of the operator who unloaded the vehicle.

It is very important and advisable that the claims are formalized with all the documentation, in order to generate a complete analysis and study.