Free Trade Agreements

Question: Does anyone have a global list of all FTAs?  Specifically, I am looking for FTAs with S. Korea and their trading partners.  

We have been asked for a Chilean certificate of origin from a Chilean customer for product that we manufactured in 1997. The product was originally sold to a US domestic customer and has obviously been resold to a Chilean customer. Our manufacturing was completed well before the US-Chile Free Trade Agreement was in place. We […]

The complexity of the free trade agreement administration in a company can be overwhelming. Does anyone have suggestions of how you organize the FTA process in your company? I’ve been through a lot of NAFTA training, but can you suggest any template or training that might help organize ourselves in relation to CAFTA, Australia, Chile, […]

Question: Does anyone have a form they use to evaluate eligibility for duty preference under the QIZ program that you’d be willing to share? Also, does yarn sourced from Egypt count towards 35% QIZ eligibility?

Does anyone in the group have any type of Israel Free Trade Act certification form to verify eligibility with Israeli suppliers on an annual basis?

How are other large companies managing the various trade agreements? We have many divisions and many ERP systems with no central FTA management. Several divisions are avoiding FTAs due to the time needed to manage and the lack of automated processes. We are in the process of procuring software to manage this across the company […]

US-Singapore Rule versus NAFTA Rule: I was curious about the wording in the US-Singapore FTA when multiple headings are being addressed. For example, it states… “A change to headings 8714 through 8715 from any other heading.” My question is if this related to “any other heading outside this group” or “any other heading including this […]

Does anyone take advantage of the Morocco Free Trade Agreement. I am searching for a template to certify origin

The Andean Free Trade Agreement expires 6/30/07. Product we are currently importing under that free trade agreement also qualifies for GSP. Does anyone know if there any issues of claiming GSP preferential treatment on the Customs entry since the Andrean Free Trade Agreement is expiring?

We received a request for information to provide certification that demonstrates goods qualify in a specific country.. We have run into a few issues that we don’t really know how to handle. 1. Our vendor buys wool and then turns it into yarn. Our vendor then takes that yarn and knits the sweaters. Our vendor […]

Is the Form A still valid support for eligiblity under the Israeli-Free Trade Agreement for duty-free entry into the U.S.?

Although most of our products are non-dutiable worldwide, we can still see significant savings through the use of free trade agreements. My problem is that I cannot find an acceptable standard for verifying country of origin that would withstand an audit. I realize that a consultant will have to be employed eventually but I’d like […]