Question: We import mostly from China, and we also export to Canada. I have no problem issuing a NAFTA certificate to our customers based on our vendors supplying us with a letter or affidavit. Recently I’ve been asked by one of our customers to provide a “blanket non-NAFTA” certificate of origin. They gave me CBP […]
Question: We have SAP but not the foreign trade module. I am looking for a place to maintain NAFTA status so that we can EDI this information to our Canadian Customs Broker along with the rest of our Canada Customs Invoice data. There is a ‘NAFTA Pref Code’ field in Sales Org 2 – but […]
Question: Could someone advise if it is “Illegal and/or unethical” to prepare and sign a NAFTA certificates without any internal record retention program in place obtaining the country of origin certification process from suppliers? ========= Answers: You are required to have on file records that can point to how you came to your decision […]
Question: I am researching the topic of Accumulation as it pertains to NAFTA and was wondering whether this method could be used even if the Rules of Origin do NOT state an RVC requirement option (for example, if the only rule is to tariff shift)? Is […]
Question: I have always used the Corporate Address as the “exporter” when completing a NAFTA Cert. Recently, I was asked to add “in box one kindly write in brackets (applies to all locations or Dba or Headoffice etc)”. We ship our products from various plants around the country, and this is the 1st request […]
Question: CBP recently made available the new NAFTA Certificate of Origin expiring 8/2014…unfortunately they made the form so that you can only save the blank document….I do not have the software to make the pdf into a workable document which enables me […]
Question: CBP recently made available the new NAFTA Certificate of Origin expiring 8/2014…unfortunately they made the form so that you can only save the blank document….I do not have the software to make the pdf into a workable document which enables me to template the many certs we issue all year long…. Has anyone […]
Question: What benefits, if any, does a Canadian importer receive by claiming NAFTA on a duty free item? Does applying NAFTA remove any other fees, such as taxes? ========== Add’l Answer: Actually the benefits would be realized when they exported them, meeting Canadian rules of export. Not everything which goes […]
Question: I need help understanding the Tariff Shift Rules When I look through different FTAs to understand the tariff shift requirements I see these varying statements: 1) A change to heading XXXX from any other Chapter 2) A change to heading 2541 from any other heading 3) A change to heading […]
Question: What benefits, if any, does a Canadian importer receive by claiming Nafta on a duty free item? Does applying Nafta remove any other fees, such as taxes? ============
Question: NAFTA and COO solicitation best practices I recently moved to a compliance roll with a manufacturer. The NAFTA process here is very manual and time consuming. Right now we are just over half way through it. We make a customized product that means we have major turn over in our materials process. […]
Question: Does anyone have a template for a letter that our Sourcing department would send out to support our NAFTA solicitation? I need to be polite but put enough force behind it that they will provide COO w/o 7 calls from the compliance team. **************
