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 […]
Question: Imported bulk grain and seed products arrive in 1000 kg totes. Plastic sleeve sewn on to each tote includes a piece of paper with the country of origin. Is this plastic sleeve considered indelible and permanent? One could rip the sleeve off or put their hand in the sleeve and […]
Question: Our company is kicking off an origin marking campaign to bring our products and packaging into compliance. From an export perspective, we have used substantial transformation as the basis for our origin claim. Our products are sold domestically as well. It appears to me that the definitions of “Made in the U.S.A” […]
Question: 6 years ago our company secured a binding ruling with U.S. customs on our marking procedures that allowed us to only mark the inner box of our product. The products are discrete integrated circuits and can not be marked individually for obvious reasons. The U.S. ruling allows our company to name […]
QUESTION: We have a situation where the manufacturer has applied the COO on the inside of a plastic, see through umbrella with a heat seal process. The problem is that they used the wrong information. They are suggesting that they could cut out the incorrect tag and add a sticker to the […]
Question: Can anyone tell me where to find rules of origin for individual countries? I can find the Free Trade Agreement rules but general rules are frequently different. Would also find marking requirements useful if there is a source available.
QUESTION ON INCORRECT COO MARKINGS, FINES, PENALTIES AND 171 APPENDEX B(C) Question: We have a situation where the market (branded and generic) is in short supply of a critical pharmaceutical product. Typically, we supplied the US market with a version of this product made in country X and rest of world markets supplied from […]
QUESTION ON DUTCH 55 GALLON DRUMS NOT LABELED WITH COO Question: We are planning to import 55 gallon drums of vegetable oil from the Netherlands. The drums, stored in a 3rd party Dutch warehouse, are not marked with Country of Origin (Netherlands). The vendor says it’s “not required” for EU trade. The Dutch vendor […]
