Question:Company manufactures product eligible for NAFTA (RVC) in US. Company also manufactures same product in foreign country. Both products end up in a foreign warehouse. Cannot determine prior to shipping to the US, if the NAFTA eligible part is shipping, or the non-NAFTA part is shipping. Company issues blanket NAFTA certs yearly. Can I include […]
Question:Company manufactures product eligible for NAFTA (RVC) in US. Company also manufactures same product in foreign country. Both products end up in a foreign warehouse. Cannot determine prior to shipping to the US, if the NAFTA eligible part is shipping, or the non-NAFTA part is shipping. Company issues blanket NAFTA certs yearly. Can I include […]
Question: Company A manufactures product eligible for NAFTA under RVC. Goodsmanufactured in US, assembled in foreign (non-Nafta country), shipped backto the US, and then shipped to Canada or Mexico.If company A (all assets, technology, etc..) is sold to company B (Non-Nafta), and company B then consigned inventory to company A (still a UScompany, owned by […]
Question: What have other members done when MX Customs insists that the HTS theybelieve is correct must appear on NAFTA certs, threatening significantpenalties, when we here in the U.S. know MX Customs is simply wrong. If wechange the NAFTA certs so MX Customs is “happy” we will be intentionallymisdeclaring to the U.S. government for export […]
Question: We have a NAFTA process whereby we continue to solicit and collectcertifications throughout the year. This results in potential claims forNAFTA refunds on Mexico imports when we received the NAFTA certificate afterthe import. The total refunds can be fairly substantial covering hundreds ofparts. We were advised that if we implement a standard practice of […]
Question: We receive NAFTA certificates from distributors, and as such they are not theproducer, because they buy from the producer. The distributor, on their certificate, will claim NAFTA using NO(3) for thepart and send the cert to me. In the producer field, the distributor puts “available to customs uponrequest”, however I still do not have […]
Given that I have POA, can I issue these certs with my signature and ‘Company Name International Services, Inc.’ though this will never match the exporter (Company Name International, Inc) or producer (Company Name Inc.)? Or, given that I have POA should I issue these certs with my signature and the company name of the […]
Question:We are trying to understand the meaning of “assemble” and “process” under NAFTA’s definition of producer: “‘producer’ means a person who grows, … , manufactures, processes or assembles a good.” See 19 CFR Pt. 181 App. Part 1 Definitions. Is the membership aware of whether Customs has defined these terms, in a ruling or otherwise? […]
Question: We would like to prepare a manual that documents how to determine origin under NAFTA. Rather than reinvent the wheel, we thought we would make a request from the Membership. Does anyone in the Membership have a manual they would be willing to share?
Question: I was reviewing NAFTA certificates and found some with errors or omissions. Since this product was already imported and cleared is there any recourse for flawed NAFTA certificates?
Question:Please comment on the below scenario as a sanity check: Company A, Canadian-based manufacturing site, imports and/or sources within Canada, NAFTA qualified products from the U.S. Some of these items are not further processed and have no value added in Canada but are sold as complementary products to customers and exported back to the U.S. […]
Question: We currently have a Mexican customer requesting that we update all oftheir 2008 NAFTA documentation with “Available to CBP Upon Request” in Field 3per their auditor’s advice. While this verbiage is now included in theNAFTA certificate instructions (on the backside of CBP Form 434), theCBP.gov website does not include any indication of the date […]
