Free Trade Agreements

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 […]

Question: I need to ask my peers if they can suggest an alternative way of structuring this business.  The duty liability on FTA entries where we do not own the factory is waking me up in the middle of the night and I need my beauty sleep! ·         We are the IOR on importations of […]

    Question:   I work for a US company that is exporting product from the US to Korea.  I am interested to draft an advance ruling request for this transaction.  I have a few questions:   1) Should the Korean party submit the ruling request or can I, as a party to the transaction? […]

Question:     We are hoping to use a Hong Kong warehouse to store Chilean product and will be sold to customers in China and the region from the Hong Kong warehouse.   The free trade agreement between Chile and China allows for third country transshipment as long as the goods do not stay in […]

Question:   Is it possible to have a different Country of Origin   depending on the Free   Trade Agreement? In our case we received a NAFTA certificate   from a supplier showing an item with HTS 8708.91 as eligible for NAFTA with   Country of Origin of U.S. We also received a US-Chile Certificate […]

Question:   Is it possible to have a different Country of Origin depending on the Free Trade Agreement? In our case we received a NAFTA certificate from a supplier showing an item with HTS 8708.91 as eligible for NAFTA with Country of Origin of U.S. We also received a US-Chile Certificate from the same supplier […]

Question: I’d like to ask the membership if anyone has received notification from Korea Customs requesting Statements of Origin and Questionnaires for products qualifying under the US Korea FTA.  We have products that qualified under the “chemical reaction” and “blend” rule and was wondering if anyone has responded to these requests with “specific” rule qualification […]

Question:   I was wondering what the consensus of the membership is for using a systems based approach or a people based approach to managing a FTA program? We are currently looking into multiple options for outsourcing our solicitation and qualification processes for multiple FTAs including NAFTA. We are exploring programs that do the process […]

  Question:       My dealer in Korea is making a statement reinforced by Korea Customs that a   US origin shipment cannot apply for KORUS FTA if the vessel sails out of   Canada seaport. They state to be within the KORUS regulations that the export   can only be via a USA […]

  Question:   Can the membership please advise if there is an FTA between Brazil and Mexico and whether it is bilateral or unilateral?   We have a slew of Ch. 87 items that we are considering for manufacture in Brazil, and then importing to Mexico for further work.    If there is an FTA […]

  Question:   I’ve noticed on some US-KR Free Trade Agreement Certificates that some abbreviations/alternate codes are used in lieu of the official preference criteria listed in the final text of the actual US-KR Free Trade Agreement.   For Example, in the final text of this FTA, the official Preference Criterion listed are:   6.1(a) […]