Question:There are certain HTS that have no rules, NAFTA skips right over them. What is the story on this? Our parts are 100% US and MX qualifying. Assembled or mfg. in MX, depending upon the item. Examples, 8708.30, 8517, 8525.50 others.
Question:There are certain HTS that have no rules, NAFTA skips right over them. What is the story on this? Our parts are 100% US and MX qualifying. Assembled or mfg. in MX, depending upon the item. Examples, 8708.30, 8517, 8525.50 others.
Question:Background In addition to our own capacity, our US company has a US subcontractor make our product on occasion We ship sales orders to our customers directly from the subcontractor via a “blind” relationship. All paperwork is on our logos. Question 1 On a NAFTA cert, can we say that ” ‘YES’ we are the […]
Question: For companies who elect to OPT OUT of NAFTA, does any member know of specific legal cite (NAFTA Annex Agreement or customs regulations) that states the NAFTA program is voluntary? Also, can members who opt out share response language (with legal cite) to request for issuing NAFTA certificate of origin?
Question: I want to make sure I am reading this correctly: Here are the ROO for heading 2710 under NAFTA: Heading rule: For the purposes of heading 2710, the term direct blending is defined as a refinery process whereby various petroleum streams from processing units and petroleum components from holding/storage tanks combine to create a […]
Question: We have a computer monitor classified under 8528.51.0000 imported fromCanada. The monitor is made in Japan and according to the HTSUS GN 12(u) under the NAFTA it qualifies as originating for duty free entry. TheNAFTA shows Preference Criteria E in block 8 and CA as the Origin in block 10and the Customs broker is […]
Question:We have some shipments sent to Canada in 2008 where we did not claim NAFTA. However, now we are trying to recover duty on these shipments but according to the vendor, the NAFTA certs they had on file were inadvertently destroyed. They are now offering to recreate the certs but I have two questions, is […]
Question:Our Canada manufacturing site issues blanket NAFTA certificates to U.S. customers and our own U.S. divisions each year. There are many items covered by each blanket NAFTA, so we use a signed and dated cover NAFTA Certificate and state see attached spreadsheet which lists all of the individual part numbers and specific criteria information. Recently, […]
Question:Prior to the changes this year, the rule read “A change to heading 3924 through 3926 from any other heading, including another heading within that group, provided there is a RVC of not less than 60% for TV and 50% for NC”. I interpret this as saying if any components do not tariff shift (same […]
Question: Would the ICPA NAFTA experts please review and advise? We manufacture a chemical classified under Heading 3907. Annex 401 Chapter 39 rule 1 applies requiring Secondary Tariff shift and Regional Value Content (RVC). I understand that if we use an imported/non-NAFTA raw material also classified 3907 it fails the secondary shift but if its […]
Question: If the transaction value to different customers is used, then what could qualify for NAFTA to one customer, may not qualify for another customer?
Question: Does anyone have Mexico customers asking for NAFTA Certificates for no- charge samples being sent to them? (Low value as well) How are you handling this request? Are you sending Certificates to them or pushing back since it’s a low value sample?
