Modified on: Fri, 19 Jul, 2019 at 4:12 PM
FedEx Electronic Trade Documents (ETD) allows the electronic submission of customs documentation at the time of booking your international shipments. This enables an earlier review of your customs documents reducing the risk of shipments getting held up in customs.
Once enabled, for international shipments where Commercial Invoice documentation would normally be required to be supplied with your shipment(s), the documents will be automatically generated as part of the shipment booking process and submitted ahead of your shipment arriving at the destination country's customs.
IMPORTANT
By default this feature is not automatically enabled in your Shiptheory FedEx settings but is easy to get started.
In your FedEx courier settings, click Advanced Settings at the bottom-left of the page to access your advanced settings. Scroll down until you see the option Enable Electronic Trade Documents
Change the drop-down menu from 'Disable' to 'Enable'. Do Not click 'Save' yet - you will need to also upload a Company Letterhead and Signature image to be used to generate the Commercial Invoice documentation that will be submitted for your shipments.
Scroll down to the next two options in your advanced settings - Commercial Invoice Letterhead and Commercial Invoice Signature.
Click on each option to select the PNG or GIF images to use for each and once both have been selected, you can scroll back up the page to click Save.
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