Question: My understanding is that Pharmaceuticals, the active product ingredient (API) is usually the country of origin for a finished good, unless a substantial transformation occurs. What about when you have two APIs with equal value to the finished good, how do members determine what the country of origin is? Would you specify […]
Question: We produce chemicals and we store our liquid raw materials in tanks. For some raw materials we have multiple suppliers (from the EU and non EU). In the context of preferential origin and Free Trade Agreements it means that in the same tank we can have raw material of preferential and non-preferential […]
Question: My overseas sales office would like to send back scrap material for evaluation and disposal. They are small pieces of various material types. They have been saving these pieces of material in large bins. They are telling me now that there is no way they can validate Country […]
Question: My customer in Korea has been picked by Korean Customs to provide verification of origin of the materials. I provided the Certificate of origin under KORUS. Have you ever run across something like this before? Some of the information they are requesting is considered company confidential so we can’t provide to them. […]
QUESTION: US Customs’ position for country of origin for pharmaceutical products has been that the C/O of the finished tablet is the C/O of the API. That is, if the API is from China and shipped to Italy where it is formulated into tablets the C/O of the tablet is China, not Italy. […]
Question: I have a question about when do we confer COO change. I’m in manufacturing and our engineers like to make assemblies for testing equipment. Another LCB and I are having a debate on when COO changes for some of them. We recently shipped a timing system that was a control […]
QUESTION: Does anyone know where one can research the Taiwan rules of origin and trade agreements? We are bidding on a Taiwan government project which we can source from several locations – US, Brazil or Japan.
Question: Does anyone know the government agency which would give guidance on country of origin for exporting items?
Question: My company is purchasing items from a US source who has issued a certificate of origin to us that we disagree with. Is it possible for us to submit a request for COO ruling to CBP, or is the actual importer required to do submit? The source we are dealing with is […]
QUESTION: Empty metal tins from Country A are going to be shipped to Country B to be filled with shoe care/shoe wax-like product. For COO purposes, is it just fine to have printed on the tins or a sticker indicating, “Made in Country B,” without any mention of Country A? The essential character is the […]
Question: I am trying to determine country of origin for a squeegee. There are 3 components to the squeegee – handle, channel, rubber “blade”. The rubber blade slides in to the channel. The handle clamps down on both the channel and rubber blade to complete the unit. The three pieces are imported and packaged together, […]
Question: Can anyone share how they deal with multiple countries of origin for the same product code? The company wants to dual source (one source is the US the other is Thailand) an item, but they don’t want to create a separate SKU number for it. It would mean two inventory pick locations, more SKUs […]
