Country of Origin

Has anyone seen examples where a supplier issues you a Country of Origin certificate and they indicate two different countries for the same part? What do you use?

What is one supposed to do when one ABSOLUTELY CANNOT determine the country of origin of an item being imported? One scenario: a USA company sources part #A from 5 suppliers in 5 different countries. The part is exempt from origin marking. USA company then ships some of these parts to its Ireland plant where […]

Does anyone know of a binding ruling (or other Customs authorization) that allows individual components for civil aircraft engines to be imported into the United States without being marked with country of origin? WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS…The importer is not the ultimate purchaser. The parts will not be used by the importer for production / […]

Ideally I would like to code all of our parts with a country of origin in our MRP system. Then I would have it print on each item on our commercial invoice for exports. I have heard of other companies doing this. Most foreign countries require the country of origin, just like we do in […]

Question, if I purchase a part (same part number) from a supplier in the US and then a supplier in Japan. I have them stored together in my inventory, do not transform them in any way, what do I do to declare the country of origin when I export them

Ann, I know that any company that has a spare parts distribution point in the USA probably has the problem of deciding how to mark kits of various parts with the proper country of origin, but particularly if some of the parts are sourced from more than one country. This often happens with small parts, […]

We are a manufacturer and we purchase finished products that we re-distribute. Regardless of its source, each unique item is sold as one sku. The country of origin is different in many cases. The actual items are properly marked with the correct country of origin. However, we have to manually track this information at the […]

Scenario A: a company outsources manufacturing of box-level products to a contract manufacturer (CM) in Italy (for example) who builds the product to the design specifications as created by a U.S. R&D center, then ships it to the U.S. where operating system software is loaded. The product as imported into the U.S. is inoperable as […]

Have a question about the actual country of origin marking required on a product. If the product is being imported in its retail box, can the country of origin marking be on the packaging only, and not on the article itself? The Tariff Act states: “…. that every article of foreign origin (or its container) […]

Question: Can anyone advise the best reference material or regulation to determine country of origin of a product that is not part of a free trade lane?

Question: I would like to ask the membership if anyone has an export process to capture and control the miscellaneous export shipments that generate from multiple US facilities. We mainly export a common EAR99 commodity and for which our broker does automatic checks against the multiple denied entities lists. However, there are times when our […]

Question: Can the Preferential and Non-Preferential Rules of Origin used by various countries be used to determine what country of origin to mark packaging sold to the consumer in various countries? Commodity: Agricultural equipment used for home & yard products Manufacturing Countries: US, CN Countries product would be sold in? CN, EU, AU The company […]