QUESTION: As a producer of a finished good, how do you explain to your suppliers of raw materials and components why they need to provide a Free Trade agreement certificate of origin to confirm its status as an originating material? These raw materials and components do not meet the applicable tariff shift therefore we need […]
QUESTION: My company manufactures pickles (HTSUS 2001.10.0000) at a US location. I am told about 70% of the gherkins used in manufacturing are US origin, the other 30% are MX origin, and there is no current method in place to segregate them based on said origin. The gherkins to not undergo a substantial transformation during […]
QUESTION: In reviewing the US & Jordan FTA, there are no rules of origin based on tariff to determine if items under 1806.20, 2106.90 and 1901.20 qualify for the FTA from a US export perspective. It only addresses items imported from Jordan and calls out items in chapter 8 and 20. How am I to […]
QUESTION: What is the proper way to fill out Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) origin statement, field 3?Annex 2 refers to “these products are of …(3) preferential origin” ****. (3) “Canada/EU” means products qualifying as originating under the rules of origin of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. When the origin declaration […]
QUESTION: When doing a commercial invoice for an item going into a country with which one has an FTA, but the item doesn’t have a required cert, does one list the country as what one thinks the country of origin is, even if it would otherwise be a qualifying country? Or does one just list […]
QUESTION: Is if there a trade agreement between Thailand and Switzerland which can save a custom cost if a form A is present for the custom clearance process? The goods are shoes coming from Thailand to Switzerland. ========== Answer: I think the accord is still under negotiations. https://www.seco.admin.ch/seco/en/home/Aussenwirtschaftspolitik_Wirtschaftliche_Zusammenarbeit/Wirtschaftsbeziehungen/Freihandelsabkommen/Liste_der_Freihandelsabkommen_der_Schweiz.html ==========
QUESTION: We ship from the US to a bonded facility in Japan which acts similar to a distribution center. The goods remain under Customs control until the order is filled and goods are shipped in same condition still under Customs control from Japan to Korea. At the time of shipment from the US we do […]
QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have a process or work instruction on how to properly qualify an item for the US-Israel FTA? ========== Answers: To qualify for no duty under U.S. Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA) a 35% of the contents must be originating from the United States. If you are trying to calculate […]
QUESTION: US Content Required to qualify for US-Israel FTA: 35% of the appraised value of the item at the time of import into Israel US Content = (1) The cost or value of the materials produced in the United States, plus (2) the direct costs of processing operations performed in the United States constitutes […]
QUESTION: If a company ships various components, in bulk quantities, of US origin to Costa Rica for further production and/or assembly, would these actions change the origin of the finished item(s) to Costa Rica? Would this depend on the nature of the further processing? How does/would accumulation be considered in this determination? What other factors […]
QUESTION: For Companies that have implemented FTA software, did you implement one FTA at a time? one region at a time? one region multiple FTA’s? why did you go with each option? What are the pros and cons? Learnings? ========== Answer: We implemented FTA as part of our initial GTM software implementation. We started with […]
QUESTION: If there is a border tax imposed in the near future, does anyone have an idea of the affect on US Free Trade Agreements? ========== Answers: This is the million dollar question. No, there is no way in knowing how and what would be impacted by a new border tax. Just Google statements made, […]
