QUESTION: I’m not 100% certain if this is an assist. It’s a triangulated transaction, but essentially we are purchasing special tooling that will be used to manufacture a product that our China plant (same parent company as ours) will purchase and use in our finished good. Scenario. Our China manufacturer places PO with Canadian vendor […]
QUESTION: We will be sending a part to our foreign supplier for use in a finished product. The value of the part and the freight costs to get it there are paid by us and would be an assist. If our vendor bills us for their foreign import duty costs and brokerage fees, would that […]
QUESTION: We provide product labels to a manufacturer overseas. The labels are applied to both the products and the outer carton. The labels were made in the US, purchased, printed, and inventoried by us, and then shipped to the manufacturer overseas free of charge. The overseas manufacturer sticks the labels on the finished product […]
QUESTION: We raised a tooling PO for tooling modification for a bracket that is a sub assembly part for a fixture purchased complete from a factory in China. Our company doesn’t have the subassembly parts in our system because we import as a complete fixture. Is a tooling declaration against the complete fixture needed? ============ […]
QUESTION: If assists are identified, what is the process for making corrections please? =========== Answers: Depending on when ‘the first import’ occurred, you could file a PSC or a Protest to correct the value on that entry. If you cannot locate the first entry, file as soon as possible or if you are talking a […]
QUESTION: We will be sending specifications to a supplier overseas for a product we want them to make. Based on these specs, the supplier will produce the mold to make this product. Would the specifications be considered an assist? **************** Answers: If you paid another off-shore supplier to design and draft the specs, yes. If […]
QUESTION: I have a question about a Customs Assist. Would the tool in the following case be considered an assist or not? We have a tool that is used to build one of our products. Our supplier built this tool, with our design, and we paid them for it in full. This same supplier uses […]
QUESTION: I have a question about a Customs Assist. Would the tool in the following case be considered an assist or not? We have a tool that is used to build one of our products. Our supplier built this tool, with our design, and we paid them for it in full. This same supplier uses […]
QUESTION: Regulations state that “Engineering, development, artwork, design work, and plans and sketches that are undertaken elsewhere than in the United States and are necessary for the production of the imported merchandise.” Our original designs are created in the US, but exported for checking and to have product deviation drawings created. For example, the US […]
QUESTION: Assist: • US Company provides unrelated foreign supplier with an injection mold. • Unrelated foreign supplier uses the injection mold to manufacture components • US Company purchases and imports molded components from unrelated foreign supplier for use in US Mold value and cost of freight to landing mold at the foreign supplier are reportable […]
QUESTION: I know if I ship parts to a foreign supplier without charge that would be a dutiable Assist on my imported finished product. What if I ship parts to a foreign supplier and charge them for it, but don’t charge them my shipping costs. Is the shipping an additional dutiable cost like an Assist […]
QUESTION: A slightly unique assist situation: • My company bought tooling built in Japan from a Japanese company in 2016 • The tooling was then transferred from the Japanese company to its Chinese counterpart in 2017 (assist duties paid) • The supplier paid for the transportation, and the cost for transportation was to be amortized […]
