QUESTION: Do all participants, those who claim USMCA, must comply with the wage rule of $16/hour, if you are not an automotive manufacturer? If all parties that claim USMCA, do not pay workers $16/hr; does that automatically exclude you from participating in this free trade agreement? Thank you in advance for your guidance. ========== Answers: […]
QUESTION: When determining the value of non-originating content in a good under review for RVC in the NAFTA, am I allowed to exclude the cost of the duty and freight in the VNM portion of my RVC calculation? Example: My Automotive Good’s Net Cost costed BOM is $100 in my manufacturing software, is produced in […]
QUESTION: We normally start our yearly NAFTA solicitation process in August/September for the following year. I’m curious to know what other companies are doing as far as sending out solicitations for USMCA/NAFTA to suppliers. USMCA is not approved yet and who knows if it will be or when but not sure if we are wasting […]
QUESTION: A number of our suppliers have been relocating production from China to Mexico and Canada. Under the current NAFTA rules of origin, if they meet the substantial transformation requirement, the country of origin becomes CA/MX, and the goods can now also qualify for NAFTA. (This is what I’m told, not what I know to […]
QUESTION: A number of our suppliers have been relocating production from China to Mexico and Canada. Under the current NAFTA rules of origin, if they meet the substantial transformation requirement, the country of origin becomes CA/MX, and the goods can now also qualify for NAFTA. (This is what I’m told, not what I know to […]
QUESTION: Do the Mexico FTAs exist in English? If so where can I find them? ========== Answers: Response… Software providers have translated Mexico FTAs into English. ========== Check out the OAS website: http://www.sice.oas.org/ The text of many FTA’s are there, many in English translation, some not. Paul Vandevert, Principal paul@ochimtradelaw.com +1 313.737.3675 www.ochimtradelaw.com
QUESTION: Question on issuing a potential NAFTA certificate on finished good products and origin of components assembled into. Please note that we manufacture goods at our company. Our factory produces components as well we globally source components. In the manufacturing process all components would take a tariff shift and comply with origin of US. For […]
QUESTION: Our U.S. supplier issued a NAFTA certificate with Criteria A on a manufactured good. We have no way to validate the preference criteria and asked for them to reconsider Criteria B instead, they insist they are correct. I have always believed in “A” is for Audit, and want to reduce the risk of Customs […]
QUESTION: I am being asked to put together a training to give a basic level of understanding of NAFTA for our manufacturing division in Mexico. Basically a PowerPoint presentation that a translator will help me explain. I have never done this type of training before. Does anyone have any tips, suggestions of what to include […]
QUESTION: My company recently moved our manufacturing from overseas to a Shelter/ Maquila in Mexico. We are currently reviewing our items that are being manufactured in our Shelter factory in Mexico for NAFTA, we have determined that the items can be marked as COO MX and qualify for NAFTA. We have also determined that the […]
QUESTION: The NAFTA Certificate of Origin needs to be retained for 5 years a part of export record retention. What about if we provide just an affidavit, producer’s statement, or country of origin statement to a domestic customer, does it need to be kept for 5 years as well? When we are not the exporter […]
QUESTION: Has anyone in the membership had a shipment held at the border because the NAFTA certificate had an expired date for the format? Examples below. Our supplier used the form with the 10/31/2016 date and it was held for 3 days while the 2020 form was completed. I looked at both forms and didn’t […]
