QUESTION: A good is manufactured in Taiwan, but the raw materials are ALL U.S. origin goods. The U.S. materials are shipped to Taiwan. Only the manufacturing process is performed in Taiwan, then the finished good is returned to the U.S. What should this be labeled as? “Manufactured in Taiwan with U.S. materials”? ************* Answers: Yes […]
QUESTION: We are having a factory here in the US making wearing apparel but the fabric is from China. Can we label as per below? “Manufactured in US with Foreign Materials” Would this be acceptable? Or can you recommend the best way to label the garments. ========== Answers: Yes, you have added a […]
QUESTION: What are the options available if the COO information is not available for a particular import item? How to file the entry without COO information? ************* Answers: How many items are you looking at? If just one, or a small number of, sample or this is a one off shipment I would not get […]
QUESTION: We have some towels that are fully made in the USA and meet the requirements to be labeled “Made in the USA.” They also qualify for NAFTA (yarn-forward). Some of the towels require the hems to be repaired. I believe that the hems would be taken out and resewn without cutting the towel. […]
QUESTION: The towels in their current state have no country of origin label affixed to them. We have conflicting opinions on whether a label should be included with each item, or just on the packaging itself. “Rags” are listed on the J-List exception list for labels on each article. On the contrary towels, washcloths and […]
QUESTION: A US based company buys, in US territory, old and discarded jeans, by the pound or in bulk, and after sorting through all the jeans some are identified as salvageable and subsequently are sent to a third party where additional treatments or embellishments are added. The jeans which cannot be saved are destroyed. The […]
QUESTION: In the answer database I see some responses to this requirement from back in 2011. It is now 2017 I am questioning the necessity of our Marking Waiver as we review and update it every year. I am wondering if back in the day maybe many years ago we used to have problems […]
QUESTION: Below is my understanding of CoO labeling in regards to the FTC standard. Does anyone in the membership have a different understanding? “Product of USA” and “Made in USA” must meet the “virtually all” standard, and there is no difference between the two. “Assembled in USA” is compliant provided that a substantial transformation occurs […]
QUESTION: Shipping goods to various countries. Two major components in 1 crate – 1 is “Made in the USA” (verified), the other is “assembled in Mexico.” The second good (MX Origin) becomes the 1st part (US Origin) – (customs rulings support this). We invoice both parts as 1 line item – the good that is […]
QUESTION: This is a question for Apparel importers who import Garments on Hangers. There are three scenarios for importing these hangers; disposable/flimsy hangers classified and entered with the garment; hangers suitable for reuse and separately classified in chapter 39 (3923.90.0080) and hangers suitable for reuse that are classified as Instruments of International Traffic, chapter 98 […]
QUESTION: I have a US product that is sent to China for further processing. The country or origin remains the US as the processing wasn’t enough to have a substantial transformation. The product is then sent to MX for packaging and shipped back to the US. This product now consists of the first product shipped […]
QUESTION: If I have one component from Germany and one from China sent to Mexico for assembly (the country of origin for this is Germany) does each component have to be called out on the packaging or can it just state Made in Germany. 2. With the same scenario as above two parts one from […]
