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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
QUESTION: Under USMCA, am I the producer of the goods, if the goods are produced by my maquila in Mexico? They are incorporated in Mexico under a separate tax id, but I have access to their BOMs etc. **************** Answers: No, the producer is your Maquila. Depending on the scenario you will be either importer/exporter […]
QUESTION: My question is to all the small to mid-sized manufacturers, who currently handle their NAFTA verification themselves, obtaining various certificates of origin for proof of origin, that are now faced with the challenge of getting in house, before July 1, 2020, a USMCA statement. Being small or mid-sized we don’t have the man power […]
QUESTION: We sell domestically as well as export our farm and dairy supplies to Canada and Mexico, along with many other countries around the world and are aware that the NAFTA is being replaced with USMCA on July 1. While our Mexico customers have not contacted us about any document changes, our Canada customers have […]
