Free Trade Agreements

Questions and answers about Free Trade Agreements

  • KORUS ORIGIN CODES

      THANKS TO VANESSA FOR PROVIDING THIS!   Thought I’d share the attached with any in the membership being asked to provide origin criteria for the KORUS FTA.     We were asked to provide origin codes from our Korean affiliate and could not find codes referenced in the FTA text.  These codes are not specific […]

  • Transshipments Preferrential Treatment

      Question: A final destination country (Korea, in this case) is not granting preferential duty treatment on freight transshipped via Hong Kong. Korean Customs Officials maintain that it does not remain ” under Customs Control” i.e. bonded warehouse), and, therefore, does not qualify for the Free Trade Agreement. (KORUS) The freight is not altered in […]

  • HTS# AND US-KOREA FTA

      Question: Has anyone seen a list of the HTS numbers that will be affected by the new KORUS FTA?   Or do you know when the HTS will be updated to reflect the Korean FTA? *********** Please note: there were multiple answers with the same website – so we only published them once. ************

  • US-Korea FTA

      Question: How does the membership plan on addressing the U.S. Korea FTA Origin certification? Since there is no prescribed format, would any of the members be willing to share their format for the certification?  Fromwhat I have been able to find regarding the certification, the certifying person / entity must include “information demonstrating that […]

  • KOREA-US FTA SUMMARY

      Question:   I am looking for a recap – summary for the Korean-US Free Trade Agreement. The CBP website doesn’t appear to have added it to the side by side chart and I have found limited information on the USTR other than the full text. I am looking for a more summarized version or […]

  • Korea UFTA certificate

      Question: For those of you already exporting goods to Korea under the UKFTA, does the Korean government require that the FTA certificate you issue be certified/approved by the US Government or Chamber of Commerce in order for the certificate to be accepted? Are there any specific statements you must include on the invoice?  

  • Australia/US FTA

      QUESTION:   I would like membership comments regarding the qualification of gasket sets under the Australia/US FTA.   Looking at the following hypothetical set that would be classifiable under 8484.90 HTS, would this qualify under the FTA?  If so, how would country of origin be determined?   Gasket Set – 8484.90.0000 HTSUS                […]

  • Australia-US FTA: Gasket Sets (addtl)

      Question:   I would like membership comments regarding the qualification of gasket sets under the Australia/US FTA.   Looking at the following hypothetical set that would be classifiable under 8484.90 HTS, would this qualify under the FTA?  If so, how would country of origin be determined?   Gasket Set – 8484.90.0000 HTSUS                 […]

  • Australia-US FTA: Gasket Sets

      Question:   I would like membership comments regarding the qualification of gasket sets under the Australia/US FTA.   Looking at the following hypothetical set that would be classifiable under 8484.90 HTS, would this qualify under the FTA?  If so, how would country of origin be determined?   Gasket Set – 8484.90.0000 HTSUS                  […]

  • US-COLUMBIA FTA PREFERENCE CRITERIA (addtl)

      Question: We ship goods to Colombia and are trying to utilize the new Free Trade Agreement to reduce duties paid there. We ship goods manufactured in the US which contain some quantity of foreign made parts and are trying to determine which preference criterion to use. The eligibility requirements are stated in Note 34(b) […]

  • FTA COO’S AND DROP SHIPMENTS (addtl)

      Question: We have started drop shipping from a factory in China to our customer’s customer in Thailand.  We cannot provide the Certificate of Origin Form E to our customer or to their customer (drop ship party) because on that particular form the FOB invoice price is a required data element.  We don’t want them […]

  • US-COLUMBIA FTA PREFERENCE CRITERIA

      Question:   We ship goods to Colombia and are trying to utilize the new Free Trade Agreement to reduce duties paid there.   We ship goods manufactured in the US which contain some quantity of foreign made parts and are trying to determine which preference criterion to use. The eligibility requirements are stated in […]