FedEx^® ETD (Electronic Trade Documents)

FedEx^® Electronic Trade Documents or ETD is a FedEx service that allows the shipper to submit customs documentation electronically for international shipments. It negates the need to print and attach multiple copies of documents to individual packages. On first use of the manifest process, WorldLink performs a check for the FSMS version. (FedEx ETD is only supported by FSMS v10.6 and later.) Assuming 'ETD Allowed' is pre-selected in the client-side FedEx configuration, WorldLink can be configured to add Electronic Trade Documents to applicable international shipping services.

Pre-requisites

1. For FedEx ETD to work in WorldLink, all aspects of FSMS settings must be pre-configured at the back-end. (E.g. various ETD options must be 'allowed', label settings must be configured, documentation format must be pre-loaded, etc.)

2. FSMS version must be 10.6 or later.

Configuring WorldLink for FedEx^® ETD.

Configure the Carrier Account.

Configuration | Carriers | Carrier Accounts.

1. Select a FedEx carrier and Edit to open the configuration dialog. Select FedEx ETD.

2. Allow for ETD Shipments - Shipments with ETD will be processed only when this option is selected. If it is not enabled,  the error message "ETD is not configured for this specific FedEx Account. Please contact your CMS WorldLink Administrator." will be displayed to the user.

3. Generate Commercial Invoice (CI), Generate Certificate Of Origin (CO) and Generate Proforma Invoice (PI) are the ETD documents generated. The user can specify the number of copies required. See 'Additional Things to Note'.

4. Wait for Confirmation... - if this selection is made the transaction will wait for confirmation from the FedEx server and all shipping will be halted until confirmation is received.

1. ETD Print Options

   • Always print generated ETD documents - all generated documents will be printed.

   • Print when upload is not successful or not supported - Only those documents that could not be electronically sent will be printed.

For this service, settings selected here (type of document, number of copies, etc.) will always take precedence over the Documents configuration in Organization.

Save the electronic trade documents.

Configuration | System Parameters | General | Manifests: The path defined here is where the ETD output will be saved.

Print the electronic trade documents.

LocalConfig. | Station Configuration.

1. Select Print CO (Cert. of Origin) and assign a printer.

2. Select Print CI (Commercial Invoice) and assign a printer.

   • If a Proforma Invoice (PI) is selected for the service, the Print CI option will generate that document also.

Commercial Invoice (CI) and Proforma Invoice (PI) are mutually exclusive. In some cases, FedEx will generate a CI even when a PI is requested. Refer to FedEx ETD documentation for full details.

Label generation.

ETD will be displayed on the labels for the applicable FedEx services.

Using ETD for International Shipping

Process FedEx International Shipments

1. Process Shipments | International - select ETD to generate the output.

2. Process Shipments | Station Shipping History - select Reprint to re-print the ETD label.

View FedEx International Shipments

View Shipments | Package Information - select a FedEx ETD package and select Reprint ETD to re-print the electronic documentation.

Additional Things to Note

1. For a multi-package shipment (MPS), the ETD transaction will occur after the last package is processed.
2. FedEx ETD is not available for future shipments.
3. FedEx electronic trade documents are generated by FedEx, not WorldLink.