Question: We are a US manufacturer who sells products from a range of origins. We have significant manufacturing operations in the US but also import components and finished goods from all over the word. Our manufactured, assembled, and purchased products are sold in all regions of the world. Our current business system in the US […]
Question: We are a US manufacturer who sells products from a range of origins. We have significant manufacturing operations in the US but also import components and finished goods from all over the word. Our manufactured, assembled, and purchased products are sold in all regions of the world. Our current business system in the US […]
Question: I would like to ask you for a help in order to determine exact country of origin for the following equipment: Diaphragm valve, it is made up of the following parts: PIPE FITTING – made in DE, value $320 TANK FITTING – made in US, value $950 NEEDLEs – made in US, value $750 SILICONE […]
QUESTION: I wanted to ask the membership about a country of origin question. We have product that is produced in Puerto Rico. For country of origin purposes, the question came up as could we in fact declare this as country of origin US for labeling purposes? Given that Puerto Rico is a territory of […]
Question: Company buys a 300Kw coil to melt metal in an electric furnace sometime in the 1980’s…no one knows where it was bought and the manufacturer info on the tag is gone from 30+ years of cleaning and maintenance. It’s no longer used, so now they want to sell it to one of their suppliers […]
Question: We are a US company that ships weekly consolidations to our divisions in Mexico and Canada. We source parts from all over the world, but final-assemble at our US factory into US origin goods. I know that typically when an item is used in a manufacturing process that changes the article into a “new” […]
Question: How do you determine country of origin in the following situation: We import a Chinese actuator and mount it to a US valve body in the US. The value of the Chinese actuator is much higher than the US valve body, and merely assembling the two together does not necessarily substantially transform either. If […]
Question: A customer of ours in the US Virgin Islands, whom we have recently exported equipment to, has asked that we remove the country of manufacturer field and replace with a statement along the lines of “these goods were assembled and refurbished in the United States.” This equipment was manufactured in various countries, but not […]
Question: I would like to know the memberships thoughts on country of origin for the following scenario; A foam block is made in South Korea, sent to Indonesia where it is cut to shape and then sent to the US for sale with no further processing. Being that the essential character is foam and there […]
Question: We are a larger manufacturing operation with about 500 vendors for about 12K component parts. The compliance department has no spare time. Our imports are not high tech. Now for the country of origin question: We would like to automate how we get country of origin details from our suppliers. If the supplier logs […]
Question: Can anyone provide a link or resource to the rules for goods to qualify goods as country of origin EU when selling goods in the EU? I am looking for information on qualifying a non-EU origin chemical further processed in the EU for sale as EU origin. Answers: You can see the rules […]
I recently joined a company and found out that we use a fulfillment warehouse. This fulfillment warehouse is a service provider for our goods. On our exports they will create the customs invoice or commercial invoice for which we will either provide instructions or provide our own. However, they will also create a […]
