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) […]
Question: Many of the FTAs include a tariff shift rule and I understand the theory of “components” of a final product shifting from the original to the final HTS. How far down the Bill of Material do we need to go to define “components” – can we stop at sub-assemblies, or does […]
Question: Current situation: Company A produces a heavy motor vehicle in the United States and sells it to a related company in Mexico. Mexico sells to an unrelated company in Colombia but has the motor vehicle drop-shipped from Company A to Colombia. The vehicle contains 35% US content, which satisfies the RVC content requirements […]
