Print-Ready Documents: USA and NAFTA

Use

The SAP system supports foreign trade documents for the United States and NAFTA that you can print and use directly. The printed documents comply with the relevant governments' requirements and no further customizing of their layouts is necessary.

The table below lists these foreign trade documents and their output types. Each of these documents uses the export IDoc EXPINV02 and the program RVADAUS1.

Foreign trade document

Output type

Description

Commercial invoice for USA and NAFTA

FUCI

Describes the entire business transaction.

Certificate of origin for USA

FUCO

Verifies the origin of goods in a shipment

Export packing list

FUEP

Confirms the contents of a shipment when it leaves the exporter's plant

Pro forma invoice for USA

FUPI

Preliminary document for the commercial invoice that describes the entire business transaction

Shipper's export declaration (SED)

FUSD

Declares exports from the USA that satisfy the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).It meets the following legal requirements:

  • Compiles the official US export trade statistics as provided for in the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR), 15 CFR, Part 30

  • Administers the requirements of the EAR, 15 CFR, Parts 768-799

Shipper's letter of instruction (SLI)

FUSI

Conveys specific instructions and information from the exporter to the service agent (usually the forwarding agent)

Prerequisites

To print the export documents for Europe, you must maintain the output processing program tables.In Customizing for Sales and Distribution , choose:

  • Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Output Control Next navigation step Output Determination Next navigation step Output Determination Using the Condition Technique Next navigation step Maintain Output Determination for Billing Documents Next navigation step Assign Output Types to Partner Functions End of the navigation path

  • Start of the navigation path Basic Functions Next navigation step Output Control Next navigation step Output Determination Next navigation step Process Output and Forms Next navigation step Assign Form Texts End of the navigation path

See also

For instructions on printing foreign trade documents for USA and NAFTA, see Printing Export Documents .