Question: I would like to ask the opinion of the membership on the following NAFTA Scenario: We purchase 350+ parts and raw material for the manufacture of a medical machine (9018.90.xxxx). 90% of those parts are purchased from U.S. manufacturers OR distributors. The other 10% are from foreign vendors. None of the […]
Question: I am quite confused about Tariff Preferential Levels and their applicability. I understand the fundamentals related to NAFTA rules of origin, however to me TPLS seem to undermine the tariff shiff rule. We recently started importing some of our wool fabric from Italy to combine with synthetic fibers manufactured here in the USA (the […]
Question: I would like to ask the group if anyone lists a product series in a NAFTA document instead of listing each single part number. Example: I have approximately 400 part numbers within a series that are all same HTS, Pref Crit, Producer, NC, COO. Can I list the series rather than each individual part […]
Question: We have a purchaser in Mexico that will be the importer of record into Mexico. They have asked us to issue a NAFTA Certificate. I issued a Producer’s NAFTA Certificate. They are now coming back to us and want us to include our information in field 1 as the exporter. I have explained that […]
Question: I would like to ask the group if anyone lists a product series in a NAFTA document instead of listing each single part number. Example: I have approximately 400 part numbers within a series that are all same HTS, Pref Crit, Producer, NC, COO. Can I list the series rather than each individual part […]
I am a producer of three items in the US and they qualify for NAFTA. My US Domestic customer is the exporter of these items and they requested a NAFTA cert from me. After they reviewed the certificate I provided, they requested that I change the HTS code on these three items because they are […]
I am quite confused about Tariff Preferential Levels and their applicability. I understand the fundamentals related to NAFTA rules of origin, however to me TPLS seem to undermine the tariff shiff rule. We recently started importing some of our wool fabric (olefin) from Italy to combine with synthetic fibers manufactured here in the USA (the result […]
Question: I am just starting the process of requesting NAFTA certificates from ourvendors and am hoping the membership can provide some guidance. We are finding that some of our vendors will respond with a 2009 NAFTAcertificate within 1 or 2 hours of our request. Although thecertificate itself is completed correctly (meaning there are no […]
Question:I am just starting the process of requesting NAFTA certificates from our vendors and am hoping the membership can provide some guidance. We are finding that some of our vendors will respond with a 2009 NAFTA certificate within 1 or 2 hours of our request. Although the certificate itself is completed correctly (meaning there […]
I received a completed Mexican NAFTA Certificate of Origin signed by a person whose title was shown as “Legal Representative”. When I inquired as to what type of position this person held, specifically, in the company that gave them the authority to be able to sign this form, they replied “She is legal representative (by […]
We would like the membership’s opinion on the following situation:We manufacture and assemble a product consisting of multiple components from foreign countries, as well as domestic content. If we sell that product to Canada but it does NOT meet the NAFTA rules of origin, how do we determine the county of origin for the purpose […]
Question:We are a non automotive manufacturer that is required to determine NAFTA eligibility using the Net Cost Method. Our product is similar to automotive in that we can have thousands of different variations of our product. We import some high dollar components that come from China and therefore the product that uses the China components […]
