Country of Origin – Marking

Questions and answers about Country of Origin – Marking

  • ORIGIN CHANGE addt’l answers

    Question: My company purchases a finished good from a large food additive company in the US which we repack and sell. The manufacturer has labeled the product made in USA. In the past management has had doubts about the company’s claim that the product is of US origin. The company we purchase from imports from […]

  • ORIGIN MARKING

    Question: We have an item imported from China.  The item is packaged in a clear plastic, heat sealed bag.  A China label is affixed to that bag.  Additionally, that bag is placed in a bubble wrap bag which does not get closed.  The item can be sold individually or as a very minor part of […]

  • ORIGIN MARKING

    Question: We have a China based subsidiary that manufactures parts that we import into the US with sales potential both internal US and re-export. Our subsidiary is considering not including the part number, nor COO marking on the part, but including those details on the packing list on initial import into US. First, is this […]

  • QUESTION ON ORIGIN MARKING IN QATAR

      Question: Is anyone in the membership aware of any published documents or website which addresses Country of Origin marking requirements at foreign destinations/countries? We have recently had problems in Qatar and when we asked our customer and forwarders agent to provide us any published Qatari Customs regulations the information received from both was; similar […]

  • FTC LABELING GUIDE

    Question: I’m wondering if anyone has a pdf copy of the FTC’s publication about labeling goods made in the USA? I’m almost positive that’s one of their publications, but because of the government shutdown, their website is inactive, I can’t look it up! ============

  • ORIGIN MARKING PRACTICES

    Question: We have chemical products mostly sold in bags that are manufactured in the US that use both foreign and US component materials/ingredients.  For import/export country of origin purposes, we apply tariff shifts and the substantial transformation principle to determine the country of origin for exports from the US.  However, if we sell the products […]

  • COO MARKING FOR BULK PRODUCT IN TOTES

    Question:   Imported bulk grain and seed products arrive in 1000 kg totes.  Plastic   sleeve sewn on to each tote includes a piece of paper with the country of   origin.  Is this plastic sleeve considered indelible and permanent?  One   could rip the sleeve off or put their hand in the sleeve and […]

  • FTC VS CBP ORIGIN MARKING

    Question:   Our company is kicking off an origin marking campaign to bring our products and packaging into compliance.  From an export perspective, we have used substantial transformation as the basis for our origin claim.  Our products are sold domestically as well.    It appears to me that the definitions of “Made in the U.S.A” […]

  • KOREAN MARKING

      Question:   6 years ago our company secured a binding ruling with U.S. customs on our marking procedures that allowed us to only mark the inner box of our product.   The products are discrete integrated circuits and can not be marked individually for obvious reasons.  The U.S. ruling allows our company to name […]

  • COO Marking on umbrellas

      QUESTION:   We have a situation where the manufacturer has applied the COO on the inside of a plastic, see through umbrella with a heat seal process. The problem is that they used the wrong information.   They are suggesting that they could cut out the incorrect tag and add a sticker to the […]