OEA Costa Rica

Authorised Economic Operator status, without the guesswork.

The guarantee question, answered properly

A question that comes up often: do OEAs post security for missing goods? The honest answer needs two things the law keeps apart. What auxiliary operators must post as a garantía global: CA-peso = peso centroamericano, a regional accounting unit pegged 1:1 to the US…

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Who holds OEA status

Twenty-nine operators on the DGA's published register, in three activity classes. Public: the name and the activity. Not public: the certificate's content. Is this company an OEA? Check the Directorate-General of Customs' published register. SOURCE: Empresas Certificadas OEA, hacienda.go.cr · list as published · verify…

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Container number check (ISO 6346)

Every shipping container carries an eleven-character identity under ISO 6346: four letters and seven digits. The final digit is not arbitrary. It is a check digit, calculated from the preceding ten characters through a modulo-11 algorithm with positional weighting. Enter a container number and this tool…

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