USMCA

  • 9801 vs USMCA Template for Announcements

    QUESTION: With NAFTA, we couldn’t use NAFTA to bring US goods back into the US.  We were forced to use 9801, usually. Is that also true for the USMCA?  Must I use 9801 on a USMCA-qualified good or can I import it into the US just under the USMCA? =========== Answers: If goods are simply […]

  • USMCA CRITERION C

    QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have a good example to explain when Criterion C is to be used in qualifying goods under USMCA? ========== Answers: When the good is made in either CA/MX/US and all of the components that make it up are originating. That is when you can use Criteria C. ========== Origin […]

  • USMCA PREF D QUALIFICATION

    QUESTION: Does the membership think it’s possible for this item to qualify for USMCA under criterion D?  The producer has issued a manufacturer’s affidavit stating these qualify for USMCA under Preference Criterion D.  We asked for additional support for the D criterion and the manufacturer has stated: Finished item (pet food storage bin) is classified […]

  • USMCA for Large Machinery

    QUESTION: I note that all of the USMCA preference criterion in Article 4.2 require an item to be “produced” in a Party country, and Article 4.1 defines “production” as “growing, cultivating, raising, mining, harvesting, fishing, trapping, hunting, capturing, breeding, extracting, manufacturing, processing, or assembling a good, or aquaculture.” With the above in mind, is it […]

  • USCMA PRODUCER AND EXPORTER ADDRESS

    QUESTION: Under USMCA the producer address shall be “the place of production” and the exporter address shall be the “place of export.”  We certify multiple products for customers under a blanket period of 12 months.  Each of these products may be produced in a different location.  Also, depending on the production location, the place of […]

  • MPF REFUND UNDER USMCA

    QUESTION: CBP Message CSMS# 43197567 indicates that CBP will not be authorized to refund MPF through ACE 520D process.However, does anyone know if claiming USMCA through Post Summary Corrections (PSC) would result to MPF refund? or the MPF will not be refundable after the entry finalized, period? ************* Answers: You cannot do a PSC for […]

  • USMCA RULES OF ORIGIN

    QUESTION: Does anybody have access to the updated HTS for the USMCA rules for each HTS number effective today and what is required i.e. Tariff shift or Tariff shift plus RVC? Has this been published yet or are we to use the rules under NAFTA until these get published?  How can you find out what […]

  • NAFTA vs USMCA

    QUESTION: Need help please. This is taken from the HTS 2020, and not the new Tariff with the new origin rules for USMCA, for I have not been able to find this anywhere. So under NAFTA this reads “Subheading rule: The underscoring of the designations in subdivision 239 pertains to goods provided for in subheadings […]

  • USMCA VS NAFTA TARIFF SHIFT

    QUESTION: If an HTS has only “a change of subheading XXXX.XX from any other subheading” listed in the USMCA rules of origin, is the tariff shift the only requirement?  Or am I missing something further.  The same HTS had a regional value content under NAFTA that is not listed in the USMCA rules of origin. […]

  • USMCA PRODUCER

    QUESTION: If a U.S. sourcing company domestically obtains a USMCA qualified part from a U.S. producer and the U.S. sourcing company is being asked to complete a USMCA for that part to their U.S. Customer, how would the U.S. sourcing company complete the USMCA form since they are not the importer, exporter nor importer?  They […]

  • USMCA- CA Certificate of Origin

    QUESTION: My company has been sending shipments to Canada using a medical device HS code (9021.29).  This code is duty free.  We have not needed to include a COO either due to the duty free nature of the commodity, but based on USMCA agreement, a COO is required for shipments valued at or greater than […]

  • BLANKET USMCA TIME FRAME

    QUESTION: Due to the significant changes of the automotive rules in the USMCA agreement, do companies affected by the automotive ROO changes expect to switch over to a blanket period of 7/1/2020 to 6/30/2021? I’m asking because Chapter 4, Article 3 details the changing RVC requirements based on when the agreement goes into effect, which […]