NAFTA

Certificates of Origin are required only when exporting country is claiming Nafta benefits, correct?

A U.S. company has learned that one of their competitors is importing merchandise from a third country, reexporting it to Canada or Mexico and advising their customers that the merchandise is of U.S. origin. The competitor provides their customers in Mexico and Canada with a NAFTA certification that falsely states that the goods qualify for […]

A controller unit qualifies for NAFTA under the RVC net cost method. A component of the controller is a PC Board assembled in Mexico. In order for the PC Board to be a NAFTA originating component calculated under this method, would the PC Board also have to under go the same type of evaluation as […]

Does anyone know of a training seminar that explains heavy duty automotive rules for NAFTA?

Question: We have a customer asking for a blanket NAFTA for several items. One item is purchased thru a domestic supplier, but is of foreign origin, thus non qualifying. The commodity is bulk screws. The customer is requesting we provide the Non-NAFTA Form A which certifies whom the manufacturer is and the manufacturers location. My […]

Question: For 2007, I have been assigned the task of revamping our ancient NAFTA program. We are a distributor, not a manufacturer, so it is very complex to me. We currently use an excel spreadsheet and our parts listing exceeds 30,000 parts. We definitely need a better way to do this. I have never implemented […]

For 2007, I have been assigned the task of revamping our ancient NAFTA program. We are a distributor, not a manufacturer, so it is very complex to me. We currently use an excel spreadsheet and our parts listing exceeds 30,000 parts. We definitely need a better way to do this. I have never implemented a […]

I need to issue a NAFTA Certificate of Origin to our sister company in Canada for a production part that we purchase from a domestic supplier and ship to them. Usually the domestic supplier is also the producer so once we receive the NAFTA Certificate of Origin we would issue our NAFTA Certificate of Origin […]

Does any member of the trade community know of any NAFTA software other than PSI and JPMorgan Chase Vastera that could be recommended?

For those members who have 100+ vendors and task each year with requesting the NAFTA Certificates. Have you a method that results in timely responses from your vendors?. I understand the NAFTA certificates are good for Five years effective 07 but, I gotta get 07 updated first…

The Finished Good is 8501.10 (actuator assembly) None of the components come from 8503.00.35; 8503.00.45; or 8503.00.65 The first NAFTA rule of Origin states: ” A change to heading 8501 from any other heading , except from tariff items 8503.00.35, 8503.00.45, or 8503.00.65″. I cannot qualify with this rule as a major non-originating component is […]

For those members who have 100+ vendors and task each year with requesting the NAFTA Certificates. Have you a method that results in timely responses from your vendors?. I understand the NAFTA certificates are good for Five years effective 07 but, I gotta get 07 updated first…