As a general rule, our vendors are responsible for all costs associated with producing an item for sale, including costs of fabric, trims and the transportation costs to move those components to their factory for manufacture. However, on occasion, we will agree to pay the costs to air freight the components to vendor’s facility, where […]
I am in the processing of writing our Customs Process and Procedures Manual but I’m having a difficult time with my purchasing and engineering departments understand what an assist is. I have sent the procedures out to them explaining but so far I received no feedback or additional information from them. Can anyone share their […]
My company wants to ship some used manufacturing equipment to Taiwan. Will I have the same issues as with Mainland China, not wanting to accept used equipment?
We import from a foreign supplier assembled electronics items which detonate . Our company gives free of charge to the same supplier a “LAT kit” (lot acceptance test) this “Kit” is a testing device that will actually perform a detonation by the same foreign supplier, but is not used to test all the finished product, […]
My company is going to send chips to a third party manufacturer in China free of charge to produce our finished good for export back into the U.S. We will not be the importer of record on the shipment coming into the U.S. The third party manufacturer will have their agent in the U.S. be […]
I am interested in knowing how other companies split the value of “offshore assists” for goods ultimately imported into the U.S. Example – the root design of a product is US origin; a foreign engineer,working for the US company, makes modifications/enhancements to the design, and the product is manufactured in the US, but sent overseas […]
Wanted to see how the value of functional test equipment is handled for the purpose of it viewed as a dutiable assist for product produced overseas for ultimate importation to the U.S. Is the process similar to tooling or is there something special with regard to the test performed, when the testing is done, etc. […]
I seem to remember the membership discussing/looking for a questionnaire on assists. A kind of quick explanation and questionnaire that could be sent to non-compliance personnel in order to flush out any assists within an organization.
We are a manufacturing company with overseas subs. We are shifting production of some of our products to those plants. We are starting on a new project in our Penang plant. If we purchase the new tooling ( a US purchase order ) for the sub then we must claim it as a assist when […]
Concerning assist reporting, if R&D is conducted outside of the U.S., but all the R&D related costs are paid for by the parent company inside the U.S, does this constitute an assist?
Upon reviewing last year’s entries versus assists, we have found that our customs broker, who shall remain nameless, neglected to declare 3 assists as they were advised on the pre-alert. It is our policy to declare and pay duty on the total value of the assist upon the first importation. We are still importing the […]
One of our subsidiaries has entered into a joint venture with a manufacturing company in China. They will be selling machinery and tooling to the company in China and it will be used in the production of merchandise that will be imported into the U.S. by our subsidiary. Since they are selling the machinery and […]
