Foreign Trade Data Issue

Question

Hi All,
    I have a problem while creating billing document.
System is showing that"Foreign trade data is incomplete".Because customer belongs to foreign country.I am maintaining country in customer master data:General tab page.
Is it required to map foreign trade if the customer belongs to country other than India?
If we give country other than India than during creation billing document: in foreign trade/customs:organization tab page: number of foreign trade data and FT basis doc. cat. is coming automatically. But if I maintain IN in customer master record it is not coming.
So my question is how to solve this so that if I maintain country other than IN in customer master record  than I can able to create billing document and release it to accounting..
Points will be awarded for a helpful answer.
Thank and regards.
Ashis Patnaik
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Answer 1

Hi,
Listed below are the areas of Customizing you need to check to ensure you have fully maintained the foreign trade master data, check objects, and proposal objects.
Because the system’s defaults depend on settings in Customizing, the more fully you maintain this data, the more complete the data in the purchasing and sales documents will be, and the more efficient the system will be to use.
You can access the Implementation Guide (IMG) to customize your area of interest via your project from the SAP standard menu by choosing Tools - AcceleratedSAP - Customizing - Edit Project.
In the IMG, make entries in the appropriate items in the checklist below to ensure that the Foreign Trade application component is prepared for use.
Check out the foll settings:
This checklist applies to configuring objects for both inward and outward processing. 
       1.      Number range
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Define Number Ranges
       2.      Commodity codes and import code numbers
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Basic Data for Foreign Trade - Define Commodity Codes/Import Code Numbers by Country
       3.      Procedure
¡        Definition
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Basic Data for Foreign Trade - Define Procedures and Default Value - Define Procedure
¡        Sales and Distribution (SD) default value
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Basic Data for Foreign Trade - Define Procedures and Default Value - Define Procedure Default
¡        Materials Management (MM) default value
You maintain this value in the purchasing info record on the Purch. org. data 1 (Purchasing organization data1) screen.
       4.      Business transaction type
¡        Definition
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Basic Data for Foreign Trade - Define Business Transaction Types and Default Value - Define Business Types
¡        SD default value
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Basic Data for Foreign Trade - Define Procedures and Default Value - Define Default Business Type (SD)
¡        MM default value
Sales and Distribution - Foreign trade - Basic data for foreign trade - Define business transaction types and default value - Define default business transaction type (MM)  (Table T604)
       5.      Mode of transport
¡        Definition
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Transportation Ddata - Define Modes of Transport
¡        MM default value
Maintained in the vendor master on the Purchasing data screen
       6.      Customs offices
¡        Definition
Sales and Distribution - Foreign trade - Transportation Data - Define Customs Offices
¡        MM default value
Maintained in the vendor master on the Purchasing data screen.
       7.      Control of import data screens
Sales and Distribution - Foreign Trade/Customs - Control Foreign Trade Data in MM and SD Documents - Import Screens in Purchasing Document
       8.      Countries
General Settings - Set Countries - Define Countries
       9.      Currencies
General Settings - Currencies - Enter Exchange Rates
for master rec., refer the foll. site.
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/93/74440d546011d1a7020000e829fd11/frameset.htm
Hope it would help.
Regards,
Siddharth.