Question: I have a commodity that is too small for item marking. When marking the shipping packages with multiple country contents, what country to you indicate? ============ Answers: All of them. Take a look at some retail packaging, for example at the major hardware stores. Most often you see packaging labeled listing multiple countries of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]
Question: Would the membership be willing to share a resource of labeling requirements by country? i.e. which countries require Origin, etc. (we export many chemicals, are there additional requirements?) ==========
Question: Would the membership be willing to share a resource of labeling requirements by country? i.e. which countries require Origin, etc. (we export many chemicals, are there additional requirements?) ==========
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! ============
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
