9801

  Question:   To use 980100 10 or 980100 20 would we need a Foreign Shipper’s Declaration and a Manufacturers Affidavit, right?  

Question:A couple of the US ports of entry are requesting a statistical tariff beused on any filing of a 9801.00.10 entry.  Per Chapter 98’s statisticalnote 2, the rate of duty is derived from the statistical reportingnumber as with the 9802.00.4040 example provided.  However, if9801.00.10 is duty free, on what basis are the ports requesting thesecond […]

Question: We manufacture a finished good in the USA.  We sell the goods to our relatedMexican affiliate for the purpose of packaging the finished good.  Theproblem here is that there are poor records of the goods being exported andwhen the goods are imported back to the USA, I am unable to determine whichexport covers which […]

Question: Scenario: Item from Japan that we purchase/import into US and pay duty on. They sit in our US warehouse. Two months later, we export volumes of these unused parts to Canada to fulfill Canadian customer need for their manufacture of their product XYZ at their Canadian plant.   Six months after that, the Canadian […]

We purchase insulated wire from an US supplier and sent it down to Mexico to be cut to length.  According to several rulings in CROSS, cables cut tolength does not constitute substantial transformation, therefore, if thecable is classified under 8544.49.3080, would country of origin under 19 CFR 102.20 be US if US is the country […]

In December we sent workholders to a related party in Canada to see if theycould use them if they were to buy one of our  machines currently in use inthe US.  The origin was originally believed to be US, the HTS isunconditionally duty free in CA  and they were expected to be returned as USGoods […]

Question: I am receiving requests for Mfr Affidavits from Canadian customers who some of them purchase our products in the US and send to their warehouse in Canada and then if one of their US locations needs the part they re-import the product into the US.  They want me to provide a Mfr Affidavit for […]

Question:   We occasionally import sales promotion items (t-shirts, pens, other give aways) returned from trade fairs, exhibits and meetings. These are usually courier shipments with insufficient invoice detail to determine value, origin and HTS. Does anyone in the membership have an sop or other guidance on how to handle these types of importations? Is […]

If we export product (made in China) from the United States to Canada with the expectation that it will return back to the Unites States, how can we re-import the product duty free? If we complete a Certificate of Registration (CF4455) upon export, does that make it a product of the United States and we […]

Is anyone familiar with using 9801.00.2600? We are thinking about using this HTS for returns from foreign customers, but are unsure of what steps need to be taken in order to be in compliance with its use.

Question: When employees are returning from over-seas and shipping their tools and tool boxes used on site locations back to the US, you can use the HTSUS 9801.00.8500 since these are tools of the trade. What is the best Schedule B/HTSUS to use when shipping these tools out to the location? There are a variety […]

I am trying to remember what documents are required to be part of retained documents if AGR 9801 is declared. Our particular situation would be a formal entry with the AGR line item being less than $2,000. Do we need a shippers dec? An importers declaration?