Compliance Document Multiple Legal Regulations

Export in the GTS Compliance Area....We know the FTO is based on the company code of the sales order. And we know that the country of the shipping point or plant drives the legal regulations. However, can you have line items with different ship from countries in a document?
I mean normally the FTO represent downstream, the customs authority, like US, CA, etc. But having line items with different ship from countries, therefore bringing in different legal regulations, does this make sense? Does GTS allow this scenario?
Regards, Dean.

Dave/Dean, the legal regs will be determined at both the item level - based on the country of origin of the shipping plant and the header level - based on the ship to partner/country of destination. The FTO really only factors into which administrative unit preference would be done in, it doesn't factor into physical shipping location like legal determination does.
If you create a sales order with multiple plants, it will be the country of origin for each line, which can vary vs the destination country of the ship to partner (which will be constant for all lines) that determins which legal reg to draw on. One thing to keep in mind is that while you can have multiple plants - or even multiple ship points within the plant(s) on a single sales order - there will always only ever be a one to one plant/ship point at the delivery level. So even if you have items shipping out of the US and MX like in your scenario on one sales order, they will create as two distinct deliveries. Those items will be determined separately based on however you have US-GE and MX-GE regs defined. Should you only have a block on say MX-GE portion, the US based shipping department will be able to process their portion of the order regardless of the MX block.
In the example below you can see where I've created a sales order split between Canada and the US with each line shipping to CA. I have materials set up within regs for each country to block orders for exports and domestic. Lines 1 and 2 are US-CA with 4 and 5 being CA-CA. In the log view you can see where the US line items are being determined against 4 US based regulations while the Canadian lines are only looking at the 2 Can based regs
Hopefully that helps a little bit. It gets even muddier if you should want to bring Import controls into place as well and have to deal with POs vs Sales orders!
-Graham

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Hi,
Iam little confused as to why you want to assign 2 or more ECCN's to one product.
Multiple products with identical features and attributes can be assigned to the same ECCN's but what is the use of doing vice versa.
I know of a concept called set numbers. Number sets enable you to group tariff numbers from several numbering schemes together. You can then assign a set to a product or multiple products to classify that product with multiple tariff numbers at the same time, to simplify the classification process.
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Hi Dave
Thanks for answering again.
I have tried activating it at country level, country/country, country/group, Same result in case of all
As i know now since the Country of Destination is missing, it cannot activate the last two, but the same is also not working at country level.
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Just to make sure my understanding is right. You need same kind of export check for Inter-company Purchase orders right? the same kind of check that we had configured for SO and Deliveries?
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So, performing export check on PO is not possible when you have this in MM0A level. There is a note available to alter the application level for I/C POs from MM0A to SD0A. But I don't think you should think of it just considering this particular requirement. But I believe your requirement will be taken care when a delivery is created for your I/C PO- Did you check that already?
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LR1
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