Diagnostic Audit

Has your trade compliance program had a check up lately? Let BPE assist you with a Diagnostic Audit to quickly:

  • Discover the level compliance risk and areas of concern for your company.
  • Identify gaps between your company's written procedures and day-to-day operations.
  • Gauge the overall level of trade compliance for your company.
  • Identify opportunities for reducing and avoiding unnecessary costs.
  • Validate the need for additional or existing resources to support your compliance program.
  • Verify whether additional trade compliance training is required in specific departments.

BPE has years of experience auditing company's compliance programs. We will efficiently assess the health of your company's import and export compliance and quickly provide a report and scorecard that effectively communicate the following:

  • Provide final assessment results, risks, trends, root causes and statistics.
  • Explain each data element being audited and the regulations that require it.
  • Provide next steps and recommendations for improvement.

BPE can perform a Diagnostic Audit on your import or export operations or both. Our methodology is to obtain approximately 25 sets of shipping documents across product lines and shipment/order types that have occurred over the past 12 months. We will analyze these documents for compliance in the following areas:

Import
Export
  • Importer of Record Number
  • Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
  • Classification (HTS) matches company Product Matrix.
  • Valuation.
  • Country of origin.
  • Free or preferential trade agreement usage.
  • Special classes of merchandise.
  • Antidumping/countervailing duty.
  • Quantity.
  • Terms of sale.
  • Routed export transactions.
  • Entry summary filing accuracy.
  • Validation of Power of attorney.
  • EIN's
  • Harmonized Tariff Schedule Classification (HTS).
  • Schedule B Classification.
  • Export Commodity Classification Number (ECCN).
  • Export license or license exception.
  • Valuation.
  • Country of origin.
  • Quantity.
  • Terms of sale.
  • Routed export transactions.
  • Shipper's Export Declaration / EEI filing accuracy.
  • Validation of Power of attorney
  • Denied party screenings and their resolution.
Recordkeeping
Procedures
  • Audit of import/export document recordkeeping.
  • Audit of import/export document recordkeeping.