Free Trade Agreements

Questions and answers about Free Trade Agreements

  • US – ISRAEL FTA CERTIFICATE

    Question: We sell to a customer in the USA who resells to Israel.  Our customer is listed as the exporter on the BOL though the goods ship direct from our manufacturing location or nearby warehouse. We have historically provided him information enabling him to create his own US-IL FTA COO – but he is now […]

  • MIDDLEMAN ORIGIN CERTIFICATES

    Question: We have a middleman entity to which our global distributors place orders.  The middleman then places orders to the factories and will invoice the distributors.  This is basically a first sale scenario. We do not want the distributors to know our first cost, nor do we want the factories to see our selling price. […]

  • COO SOLICITATION

    Question: Does anyone have a recommendation for the best time of year to do an annual solicitation for COO? ========== Answers: There really is no good time.  One of the things that you might want to do is require that this is implemented through purchasing that for any initial order from a supplier you need […]

  • FTA DUE DILIGENCE

    Question: I would like to ask the membership for their input regarding domestically purchased components which we use in the manufacture of products which we will ultimately export under Free Trade Agreements. Our finished products fall under a tariff classification which has tariff shift rules as a basis for eligibility under the FTAs. With that […]

  • ISRAEL FTA CERTIFICATION

    Question: We are a US supplier of a product sold and shipped to a unrelated buyer in the US. U.S. Buyer will use our product in the manufacturing of their finished good that will ultimately be sold/ exported to their customer(s) in Israel. We provided the buyer a signed statement of origin confirming our product […]

  • PANAMA TRADE PROMOTION AGREEMENT

      Question:   We have a customer in Panama who is requesting that we use a specific form (very similar to a CAFTA/NAFTA) for this Trade Promotion Agreement.  I could not find it on line (CBP site)nor did I find it in the ICPA library.  Could anyone please kindly provide the form if you have […]

  • KORUS FTA CERTIFICATE

      Question:   I’ve been having US-Korea FTA certificate or Origin difficulties for products   I’ve exported from the US to South Korea.  Per the US and KR Customs websites, there is no official required format, only required data elements. If anyone has successfully and compliantly been able to issue and sign a US- KR […]

  • SAMPLE FTA DATA REQUEST FORM

    Question: I’m trying to create an internal document that asks for all of the information needed to generate any FTA to give to our internal departments.  Not wanting to recreate the wheel, but does anyone have anything like this already designed?  I’m tired of getting 50 emails with tidbits of information having play detective to […]

  • FTA AND TRADEMARK COMPLIANCE

    Question: I need to ask my peers if they can suggest an alternative way of structuring this business.  The duty liability on FTA entries where we do not own the factory is waking me up in the middle of the night and I need my beauty sleep! ·         We are the IOR on importations of […]