Question: My company is currently debating which functional area should be responsible for ensuring compliance with the FTC requirements, namely the verbiage to be used (Made In, Assembled In, Product Of) before the country to be named. Could you please share which functional area makes such determinations for your company and ensures compliance with the […]
Question: Is there a US Export regulation that states COO marking MUST be on a shipping carton when exporting product from the US? If yes, where can I find that regulation? If yes, would a ‘Made in…” statement on the consumer unit suffice; meaning, there would then be no need for the COO marking on […]
Question: We export aircraft parts that our company manufactures in the U.S to support our own fleet of aircraft internationally. The parts are currently not sold anywhere and will be re-imported back into the U.S. when they need to be serviced. The parts are manufactured in the U.S.. I believe in almost all cases there […]
Question: I have a commodity that is too small for item marking. When marking the shipping packages with multiple country contents, what country to you indicate? ============ Answers: All of them. Take a look at some retail packaging, for example at the major hardware stores. Most often you see packaging labeled listing multiple countries of […]
Question: My company purchases a finished good from a large food additive company in the US which we repack and sell. The manufacturer has labeled the product made in USA. In the past management has had doubts about the company’s claim that the product is of US origin. The company we purchase from imports from […]
Question: We have an item imported from China. The item is packaged in a clear plastic, heat sealed bag. A China label is affixed to that bag. Additionally, that bag is placed in a bubble wrap bag which does not get closed. The item can be sold individually or as a very minor part of […]
Question: We have a China based subsidiary that manufactures parts that we import into the US with sales potential both internal US and re-export. Our subsidiary is considering not including the part number, nor COO marking on the part, but including those details on the packing list on initial import into US. First, is this […]
Question: Is anyone in the membership aware of any published documents or website which addresses Country of Origin marking requirements at foreign destinations/countries? We have recently had problems in Qatar and when we asked our customer and forwarders agent to provide us any published Qatari Customs regulations the information received from both was; similar […]
Question: Would the membership be willing to share a resource of labeling requirements by country? i.e. which countries require Origin, etc. (we export many chemicals, are there additional requirements?) ==========
Question: Would the membership be willing to share a resource of labeling requirements by country? i.e. which countries require Origin, etc. (we export many chemicals, are there additional requirements?) ==========
Question: I’m wondering if anyone has a pdf copy of the FTC’s publication about labeling goods made in the USA? I’m almost positive that’s one of their publications, but because of the government shutdown, their website is inactive, I can’t look it up! ============
Question: We have chemical products mostly sold in bags that are manufactured in the US that use both foreign and US component materials/ingredients. For import/export country of origin purposes, we apply tariff shifts and the substantial transformation principle to determine the country of origin for exports from the US. However, if we sell the products […]
