QUESTION: Curious to know for the members’ companies that are moving production out of China to avoid the increased tariffs, what other countries are you moving to? Not looking for company names – just industries or by commodity – ie, plastics to country x, textiles to country z, etc.. Thanks in advance. =========== Answer: Electronics […]
QUESTION: I have been searching for a previous answer. Trying to find the guidelines for required country of origin labeling requirements for outer cartons on goods exporting to China. What if the outer carton has goods with multiple CoOs’. Does anyone have any information. The commodity repair parts for industrial cooking equipment. *********** Answers: I […]
QUESTION: For goods that have been made in China, but now subject to Section 301 duties, we are shifting most production to another country. PCBAs will be populated in the other country to achieve ‘substantial transformation’, and justify a claim of that country of origin for U.S. Customs, thus avoiding the Section 301 duties. Testing […]
QUESTION: Scenario: Our US company (non-related) is wanting our China supplier to sell/ship to a China customer. The US company (non-related) will not be part of this transaction. China customer will place a purchase order to China supplier. China supplier will ship the product to China customer in China. This appears to be a China […]
QUESTION: We are customizing product by having our China manufacturer add our customer’s logo/decals to finished goods. We then import those finished goods into the US and distribute to the customer. China customs is asking for the brand authorization letter (assuming this is only for the customers who registered their brands). My employer wants to […]
QUESTION: We heard from our broker in China that due to the trade war between China and the US, China customs has issued an urgent notice today. All goods imported from the US, the place of origin must be indicated on the packing list as well as on the goods themselves with a small label […]
QUESTION: Our company is interested in having an FTZ in China and have our vendors in China ship their products to FTZ first. Then, ship them to customers in China out of FTZ when receiving orders. In this situation, are the products subject to normal import duty and VAT into China? Or is there something […]
QUESTION: If we ship non-Chinese and possibly non-US origin empty instruments of international traffic (IIT) so our Chinese suppliers can fill them with parts, what are the Chinese import and export requirements? ***************** Answers: You should work with your Chinese suppliers on this. China Customs does recognize IIT, but the ways they do it vary […]
QUESTION: I am working on providing 2 door to door quote to our project management team. Both quotes are for exporting into China. Why would a buyer not want to act or provide information for an IOR? These customers have export to China before, but refuse to act as IOR or provide a broker they […]
QUESTION: I’d like to ask the membership if anyone has encountered a requested by either their Chinese customer or sister division to add the manufactured date to the item on their shipment? My sister company indicated there is a new regulation requiring this data be supplied into their “Pre-Record System” for importation. This is mainly […]
QUESTION: We are interested in setting up a warehouse for our products in the FTZ in Shanghai. We are a US company in the process of setting up a legal entity in China. Once we have a legal entity in China, we would like to set up warehousing so we can ship our products from […]
QUESTION: Our entity in China is running into issues with its returns process and the valuation of returned product. Step 1 – China entity prepares export of several products of different values/prices that fall under the same HS Code Step 2 – Chinese Customs rolls the total value of these products under the HS […]
