QUESTION: Corrected blanket NAFTA certification for a previous year to support Mexican pedimentos My US-based company issued a 2016 NAFTA certification to our related Mexican Importer prior to a corporate restructuring and change in the US IRS number in September of 2016. I issued a 2017 blanket NAFTA in January of 2017 with the new […]
We currently purchase and re-sell a product without performing any additional manufacturing to the product. The certificate that we receive from the vendor indicates preference criteria B. We will then issue a certificate to our customers indicating preference criteria C because we do not perform any additional manufacturing nor did we complete any further NAFTA […]
QUESTION: How does one list containers, empty or otherwise, on a NAFTA commercial invoice? I believe it’s at the end, after the actual parts. However, is it different if it’s just the empty containers being returned? ====================== ANSWERS: There is not a “NAFTA commercial invoice.” There is a commercial (or pro forma) invoice and there […]
QUESTION: We have a product that has multiple US manufacturers. We want to ship this product to Canada, but we currently do not have anything in our 3PL WMS that shows the original manufacturer. Is there any requirement to have readily available the manufacturer for NAFTA compliance ? Our product has stickers with code that […]
QUESTION: What does one do if shipping legacy equipment from the US to Mexico or Canada and the manufacturer no longer makes the part? Worse yet, if the manufacturer no longer exists? To complicate matters further, what if one is not shipping whole machines, but simply repair parts for machines and the manufacturer is not […]
QUESTION: Exporter (Parent Company)Producer (Multiple, including US and Mexican mfg sites, but all aresubsidiaries of Parent Company).Field states “Available upon request” in this case, Is it permissible to label all items as Producer ‘Y’ despite the certificate showing multiple origins? ************* Answers: I think so long as you have access to production records, you are […]
QUESTION: We have a couple of Mexican customers that are insisting the NAFTA certificate needs to be manually signed and will not accept our “electronic” signature. The signature is basically a scan of the manual signature that is then applied to the NAFTA certificate. In this technologically advanced era, I just can’t imagine every single […]
QUESTION: Has anyone received one of these forms? We are a manufacturer and our customer is requesting we complete this form. http://www.icpainc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/NAFTA-Verification-Questionnaire.pdf ========== Answers: I would ask them to confirm why they need you to use this form. If they are getting a Customs inquiry, it should be focused on the items CBP is asking about. […]
QUESTION: It’s that time of year, NAFTA season. We are a large consumer goods packaging company We start our solicitation on Oct. 1 As of Jan 1, we had 72% of our solicitations complete. As of Jan 1, 45% of our products had completed the qualification process.Hoping to get the member’s input on how they […]
QUESTION: We recently purchased fabric from Mexico that meets NAFTA qualifications. We were not the importer in the US. The fabric is dyed fabric that has the appearance of more than one color. The fabric is 100% polyester filament. The Mexican supplier provided a NAFTA certificate showing the tariff code as 5407.52 which is […]
QUESTION: Our company is investigating importing some of the raw materials we use in production of goods for the US and Canadian market. If our finished product was made 100% using the imported raw material, then the goods would not originate under NAFTA because of RVC. However, the plan is to use no more […]
QUESTION: I recently read a legal position paper around the requirements for withdrawal from NAFTA. I work for a Canadian manufacturer and we do a lot of business in the US and would be impacted financially if the U.S. withdraws, so there is some concern and we want to understand impacts and the timeline of […]
