NAFTA

NAFTA

  • CORRECTING A NAFTA CERT

      Question:   What lengths can I go to in order to tell a manufacturer that their NAFTA certificate is incorrect?   Leaving aside the matter of whether I can trust the cert or not……if they put an invalid response in a box, can I tell them “box 9 has an invalid response” or am […]

  • NAFTA CERTS WITH NON-NAFTA QUALIFYING COUNTRIES LISTED

      Question:   I have several suppliers who like to provide NAFTA certificates of origin with non-NAFTA countries on them.   When you get one of these, do you treat the entire certificate as null and void or how do you look at these?   Right now my answer is to say that this means […]

  • NAFTA ANNEX 403.1

      Question:   How often is the NAFTA Annex 403.1 updated? Where do I find the most   current Tracing List?   **********

  • MANUFACTURERS AFFIDAVIT VS NAFTA

      Question:   What regulations or laws cover a customer’s requirement to complete a manufacturer’s affidavit regarding the country of origin.  Is there a legal requirement to comply with a request for a MA?   We currently prepare NAFTA certificates for our products that qualify for NAFTA.  We also indicate the non-preferential country of origin […]

  • NAFTA PARTS VS ACTUAL PIECE

      Question:   Here I go again. At a new company, looking at NAFTA certs. Not happy. Maybe I’m overthinking this. Here’s my question –   Parts of an end item, are all lumped together as one 6 digit Schedule B on the NAFTA cert, or C/O letter.   I would typically  re-classify as individual […]

  • QUALIFYING GOODS FOR NAFTA

      Question:   When qualifying goods (either manufactured in Canada or the U.S.) for shipment between Canada, US, and Mexico what resource do you reference to inquire if the product would qualify for NAFTA using a tariff shift. The HTSUS, General Note 12 has tariff change rules, however the CBP website/Trade Programs/Trade Agreements/Free Trade Agreements/NAFTA […]

  • COO AND SPECIAL DUTY RATES

      Question:   When making entry into the US, there are 2  Country of Origins Certificates, one is the NAFTA form and the other is the COO. My question is does the COO allow the IOR to claim the Special Rate of Duty listed for that particular tariff Classification into the US?   =============

  • NAFTA and COO

      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.  […]

  • NAFTA AND COO DATA

      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.  […]