Sailing through customs Ordonez, Brenda
Nation's business,
12/1994, Volume:
82, Issue:
12
Magazine Article
The Admission Temporaire/Temporary Admission (ATA) carnet program is administered by the US Council for International Business (USCIB), the nonprofit US affiliate of the International Chamber of ...Commerce. It is an international customs document that eases entry for equipment and sample products into 47 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. Carnets are for temporary export. According to Cynthia Duncan, the USCIB's marketing manager for carnet operations, a carnet covers items that will be out of the US for no more than one year. Also an entry document for the products, it eliminates time-consuming and costly customs procedures and provides a guarantee that duties and excise taxes will be paid if items on the carnet are not returned to the country of origin within the specified time limits.
