For international shipments, the UPS International Special Commodities (ISC) program is a UPS contract service that allows customers to ship special categories of commodities to approved ISC destination countries. The ISC tab on the UPS Shipper Defaults screen enables you to specify the particular type of UPS service for which a specific ISC commodity type applies.

Notes:

•Since ISC is a contract service it is available only to UPS approved account numbers.

•On the label, the text "ISC" prints under the documentation indicator (such as INV or KEY). For the ISC Type "Biological Substances", the text is "ISC-BIO".

Specifying Services for ISC Commodity Types

To specify services...

From the drop-down lists, select a service type for each commodity type allowed or leave the default (blank) of no service selected if the commodity type is not allowed for any service. Service types are as follows:

•Worldwide Express FreightSM – ISC commodity type is allowed only for Worldwide Express FreightSM.

•Other Services –  ISC commodity type is allowed for all services except Worldwide Express FreightSM.

•Both – ISC commodity type is allowed for all services including Worldwide Express FreightSM.

You can specify the following ISC commodity types to be allowed with the previous service types:

•Seeds Allowed

•Perishables Allowed

•Tobacco Allowed

•Plants Allowed

•Alcoholic Beverages Allowed

•Biological Substances Allowed

•Special Exceptions Allowed

Click [SAVE] to save your changes or click [CANCEL] to cancel any changes and exit the ISC tab.

Note on ISC Requirements

The following requirements are associated with shipments involving ISC commodities:

•This is a shipment-level service.

•ISC is only valid for approved ISC destination countries.

•In countries that are not on the approved ISC destination countries list, the only type of special commodity allowed with a UPS international shipment is Biological Substances.

•Different ISC types are allowed on the same shipment but there cannot be duplicate ISC types within a shipment.

•ISC types are allowed for both single and multi-piece shipments.

•ISC is allowed with World Ease.

•Except for Biological Substances, ISC types are not allowed with any return service accessorial.

•Biological Substances are allowed with Print Return Label and Electronic Return Label services.