Question: Article 7.7 ( Express Shipments ) of the Korean-US Free Trade Agreement states that “{ ..} no customs duties or taxes will be assessed on, nor will formal entry documents be required for, express shipments valued at 200 U.S. dollars or less.” This section, however, does not clarify if this applies […]
Question: We sell to a customer in the USA who resells to Israel. Our customer is listed as the exporter on the BOL though the goods ship direct from our manufacturing location or nearby warehouse. We have historically provided him information enabling him to create his own US-IL FTA COO – but he is now […]
Question: We have a middleman entity to which our global distributors place orders. The middleman then places orders to the factories and will invoice the distributors. This is basically a first sale scenario. We do not want the distributors to know our first cost, nor do we want the factories to see our selling price. […]
Question: Does anyone have a recommendation for the best time of year to do an annual solicitation for COO? ========== Answers: There really is no good time. One of the things that you might want to do is require that this is implemented through purchasing that for any initial order from a supplier you need […]
Question: I would like to ask the membership for their input regarding domestically purchased components which we use in the manufacture of products which we will ultimately export under Free Trade Agreements. Our finished products fall under a tariff classification which has tariff shift rules as a basis for eligibility under the FTAs. With that […]
Question: We are a US supplier of a product sold and shipped to a unrelated buyer in the US. U.S. Buyer will use our product in the manufacturing of their finished good that will ultimately be sold/ exported to their customer(s) in Israel. We provided the buyer a signed statement of origin confirming our product […]
Question: Do any of the members have a sample form you have your suppliers fill out for US-AFTA? Is it similar to NAFTA form? ===========
Question: We have a customer in Panama who is requesting that we use a specific form (very similar to a CAFTA/NAFTA) for this Trade Promotion Agreement. I could not find it on line (CBP site)nor did I find it in the ICPA library. Could anyone please kindly provide the form if you have […]
Question: I’ve been having US-Korea FTA certificate or Origin difficulties for products I’ve exported from the US to South Korea. Per the US and KR Customs websites, there is no official required format, only required data elements. If anyone has successfully and compliantly been able to issue and sign a US- KR […]
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Question: Do any of the members have a sample form you have your suppliers fill out for US-AFTA? Is it similar to NAFTA form? ===========
Question: I’m trying to create an internal document that asks for all of the information needed to generate any FTA to give to our internal departments. Not wanting to recreate the wheel, but does anyone have anything like this already designed? I’m tired of getting 50 emails with tidbits of information having play detective to […]
