We are sending rough material to Brazil to our joint venture This company is going to machine this material and return to us as finished gears. We are going to retain ownership of this material for the export and import. When exporting we are going to put the cost of the rough material on our […]
If an asset is fully depreciated, and the asset is given to the foreign manufacturer to make product that will be imported back by the sender of the asset, does the US company need declare the assist if the foreign manufacturer paid for all transportation and brokerage costs associated with moving the depreciated asset off […]
We are a US manufacturing company. One of our foreign suppliers will not be able to obtain enough raw material to meet their planned delivery schedule to us. We currently have an abundance of this raw material in stock, and are going to give 10 units of it to that supplier free of charge so […]
We have contracted a company here in the US to manage our IT functions including hardware. (Ownership of our PC’s, Servers etc.) They are now ready to take over these functions in our off shore manufacturing locations. Questions: 1) Can my company export these computers to our manufacturing facilities abroad (become the USPPI??) on behalf […]
As a general rule, our vendors are responsible for all costs associated with producing an item for sale, including costs of fabric, trims and the transportation costs to move those components to their factory for manufacture. However, on occasion, we will agree to pay the costs to air freight the components to vendor’s facility, where […]
I am in the processing of writing our Customs Process and Procedures Manual but I’m having a difficult time with my purchasing and engineering departments understand what an assist is. I have sent the procedures out to them explaining but so far I received no feedback or additional information from them. Can anyone share their […]
My company wants to ship some used manufacturing equipment to Taiwan. Will I have the same issues as with Mainland China, not wanting to accept used equipment?
We import from a foreign supplier assembled electronics items which detonate . Our company gives free of charge to the same supplier a “LAT kit” (lot acceptance test) this “Kit” is a testing device that will actually perform a detonation by the same foreign supplier, but is not used to test all the finished product, […]
My company is going to send chips to a third party manufacturer in China free of charge to produce our finished good for export back into the U.S. We will not be the importer of record on the shipment coming into the U.S. The third party manufacturer will have their agent in the U.S. be […]
I am interested in knowing how other companies split the value of “offshore assists” for goods ultimately imported into the U.S. Example – the root design of a product is US origin; a foreign engineer,working for the US company, makes modifications/enhancements to the design, and the product is manufactured in the US, but sent overseas […]
Wanted to see how the value of functional test equipment is handled for the purpose of it viewed as a dutiable assist for product produced overseas for ultimate importation to the U.S. Is the process similar to tooling or is there something special with regard to the test performed, when the testing is done, etc. […]
I seem to remember the membership discussing/looking for a questionnaire on assists. A kind of quick explanation and questionnaire that could be sent to non-compliance personnel in order to flush out any assists within an organization.
