KSI

Many of the core members of KSI started together in their early 20s just as the company became incorporated.  They went from going out together socially to attending each other’s weddings and baby showers; the sign of a group that remains steadfastly committed to one another and their customers.
 
The biggest names in Silicon Valley when KSI began in the late 70s and into the early 80s were some of KSI’s first clients: Hewlett-Packard, Apple, National Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices (today AMD).
 
And while KSI is synonymous with semiconductor and electronics supply chain management, the company also supported other industries: auto parts, perishables, wearing apparel…even an upstart film production company at the time named Lucasfilm.
 
Fast forward to 2007 and the opportunity that truly put KSI on the map still lives today in a regulatory framework that spans the globe: the opportunity to contribute to the Harmonized Tariff. KSI submitted text to US Customs to support a customer’s request for an HTS rewrite.  Customs submitted that text to the World Customs Organization, and it’s now in today’s HTS Explanatory Notes, chapter headings and legal notes for Chapter 84.
 
The language turned previously dutiable merchandise duty-free. That change led to writing a series of rulings that changed a key classification, saving the initial customer millions of dollars in duties and benefiting many more subsequently.
 
Word quickly spread throughout the semiconductor and technology industry of KSI’s understanding and capabilities. Along with that came a reputation for doing something different – slowing down and getting it right first.  “Clients trust us to do the work, to call out the things that aren’t right and fix it before it goes to Customs and causes problems later,” comments Glenn Overstreet.  “We’re their outsourced logistics and compliance department.”
 
Alba Wheels Up purchased KSI in November, 2022.