Question: We are a larger manufacturing operation with about 500 vendors for about 12K component parts. The compliance department has no spare time. Our imports are not high tech. Now for the country of origin question: We would like to automate how we get country of origin details from our suppliers. If the supplier logs […]
Question: Can anyone provide a link or resource to the rules for goods to qualify goods as country of origin EU when selling goods in the EU? I am looking for information on qualifying a non-EU origin chemical further processed in the EU for sale as EU origin. Answers: You can see the rules […]
I recently joined a company and found out that we use a fulfillment warehouse. This fulfillment warehouse is a service provider for our goods. On our exports they will create the customs invoice or commercial invoice for which we will either provide instructions or provide our own. However, they will also create a […]
Question: What do you use as Country of origin certification? Since there is nothing generic on the Customs website, I’m looking for something to have my suppliers fill out. Do you send anything additional that states the rules for determining country of origin to have them sign that they understand? Do you accept […]
Question: My understanding is that Pharmaceuticals, the active product ingredient (API) is usually the country of origin for a finished good, unless a substantial transformation occurs. What about when you have two APIs with equal value to the finished good, how do members determine what the country of origin is? Would you specify […]
Question: We produce chemicals and we store our liquid raw materials in tanks. For some raw materials we have multiple suppliers (from the EU and non EU). In the context of preferential origin and Free Trade Agreements it means that in the same tank we can have raw material of preferential and non-preferential […]
Question: My overseas sales office would like to send back scrap material for evaluation and disposal. They are small pieces of various material types. They have been saving these pieces of material in large bins. They are telling me now that there is no way they can validate Country […]
Question: My customer in Korea has been picked by Korean Customs to provide verification of origin of the materials. I provided the Certificate of origin under KORUS. Have you ever run across something like this before? Some of the information they are requesting is considered company confidential so we can’t provide to them. […]
QUESTION: US Customs’ position for country of origin for pharmaceutical products has been that the C/O of the finished tablet is the C/O of the API. That is, if the API is from China and shipped to Italy where it is formulated into tablets the C/O of the tablet is China, not Italy. […]
Question: I have a question about when do we confer COO change. I’m in manufacturing and our engineers like to make assemblies for testing equipment. Another LCB and I are having a debate on when COO changes for some of them. We recently shipped a timing system that was a control […]
QUESTION: Does anyone know where one can research the Taiwan rules of origin and trade agreements? We are bidding on a Taiwan government project which we can source from several locations – US, Brazil or Japan.
Question: Does anyone know the government agency which would give guidance on country of origin for exporting items?
