Country of Origin – Marking

Questions and answers about Country of Origin – Marking

  • Substantial transformation and COO marking

    Question:We have imported some hollow profile steel from Argentina.  This product ismarked with COO Argentina.  .  If we take that hollow profile and  substantially transform it to a  tool for perforating here in the U.S. wouldit be permissible to remove the COO marking from the original piece ofhollow profile.  The dual COO is confusing to […]

  • HOW TO CHANGE CO MARKING

    Question: We will be importing material from Taiwan and it is marked Taiwan.  We thenchange the essential character and under NAFTA rules of origin, thisqualifies as a made in Canada product.  Here is the question, material isstill marked Taiwan, but is now made in Canada, how do you mark it andcorrectly declare this?

  • QUESTION ON COUNTRY OF ORIGIN MARKINGS

    Question:I know that in order to mark something, “Made in the USA”, I need to meet the “all or virtually all” standard.  And, according to the FTC website, “Manufacturers and marketers should be cautious about using general terms, such as “produced,” “created” or “manufactured” in the U.S. Words like these are unlikely to convey a […]

  • C/O Information on Packages 1 Kilo or Less

    Question:We are a chemical company and we purchase a number of products from one particular supplier.  We have recently issued a number of corrective actions against the supplier because they are delivering products to our plant without country of origin information on the packaging.  The supplier is purchasing these products overseas and repacking them into […]

  • SAUDI CO MARKING

    Question:My company has been awarded a project in Saudi Arabia where we will ship close to 1000 parts that will eventually make up a complete machine(s). A lot of our product comes from the U.S. and the goods are not currently marked.  The marking will be a huge undertaking for our suppliers.  Has anyone heard […]

  • COUTRY OF ORIGIN MARKING

    Question:We import individual aircraft and non-aircraft parts for repair.  Our customers overseas will list U.S. as the country of manufacture on the commercial invoice because the full aircraft engine was made by a U.S. manufacturer.  I have asked the engine manufacturer for the individual part manufacturer information and they are not able to provide the […]

  • CO Marking Engines

    Question: Trying to prove a point here and need the memberships guidance or maybe I’m wrong and need correcting.   We import engines (fully operable) into the U.S. They are marked accordingly with the country of origin. We manufacturer finished goods and install these engines in a piece of equipment. Would this meet the requirements […]

  • No C/O marking for products already gone

    Question:   We have recently become aware that some of our products we are importing from China were not marked with their origin.  These are imported in larger quantities stacked within each other to save on shipping space. They are then repacked domestically into individual cartons.    Our product specs specify that the products need […]

  • LATAM LABELING

    Question: I am trying to find out if the shipper label requires the country of originmarking for a product that goes to multiple countries in Latin America.  Iknow some of the countries require it on the retail product itself but I amtrying to find out if we have to have it on the shipper label […]

  • CO MARKING

    Question:We import pieces of steel from Canada, they are used in manufacturing and not in containers but loaded on a flat bed trailer. My question seems simple but not so much when I started researching. Do the pieces of steel have to be marked with the country of origin or can we use general exception […]

  • CO MARKING FOR NON US COUNTRIES

    I wanted to ask the membership if they have heard of any other countries that have gotten as specific as Korea on country of origin marking requirements.   Is there a list of countries and do they have a time frameof implementation as Korea does for November 2009

  • CO FOR OUTER CARTONS

    Question: My company is implementing the use of ASN/bar code labels on all our import shipping cartons received into our DC’s.  In order to off set the cost of requiring our vendors to purchase the labels, the project team suggested to have them stop pre-printing the carton markings from the master shipping cartons.  We have […]