NAFTA

Does anyone in the membership have a NAFTA RVC analysis worksheet and a country of origin analysis worksheet they would be willing to share? This will be used to prepare for a NAFTA verification.

Our company has purchased items from Mexico that we have classed, correctly, at 8205.55.5960 and have advised that this is the tariff classification to be indicated on the NAFTA Certificate of Origin. We are being told that they require the NAFTA certificate of origin from the exporter to indicate 8201.90 because that is where it […]

If you have ceased production for 2007 and 2008, but have a qualified costed Bill of Material for 2006, can you certify your product for NAFTA for the 2008 Calendar year?

Please note when we invoice and ship our product to a Mexico customer, we produce the export documents required and a NAFTA certificate. We expect the customer to import the goods with these documents. We have several Mexican customers who never imported their shipments from us in 2007. They chose to leave the product at […]

NAFTA Rules of Origin for 39.01-39.20 state: A change to heading 39.01 through 39.20 from any other heading, including another heading within that group, provided there is a regional value content of not less than…. Does this rule mean the RVC needs to be met only if a material heading is within this group? If […]

Question: I am looking for both the penalty/fine to be paid and relevant legislation for: – Putting the wrong origin on a NAFTA certificate (on export shipments, or given to a domestic customer) – Putting the wrong origin on an SED or export voice.

A US assembly classified as 8443.99 does not qualify because components are from our manufacturing site in China and also classified as 8443.99 – a change to subheading from any other heading. That assembly will become part of a machine assembled in the US classified as 8443.32 – a change from subheading 8443.90 (now 91 […]

We buy diodes from non-NAFTA origin sources and we import them as 8541.10.0070. Once we import them we put them in our products. We have a binding ruling for our product and it is classified as 8541.10.0080. There is a NAFTA subheading rule (which in my opinion does apply to our import or product because […]

We are an apparel company with licensees. Some of these licensees ship “NAFTA qualified” goods from the U.S. to Canada and Mexico. Does our company share in any responsibility for the qualification of these goods? If so, can anyone share ideas on setting up a compliance program for licensees?

Does anyone in the membership have a NAFTA RVC analysis worksheet and a country of origin analysis worksheet they would be willing to share? This will be used to prepare for a NAFTA verification.

We buy diodes from non-NAFTA origin sources and we import them as 8541.10.0070. Once we import them we put them in our products. We have a binding ruling for our product and it is classified as 8541.10.0080. There is a NAFTA subheading rule (which in my opinion does apply to our import or product because […]

I haven’t run into this specific issue before and just need to run it by other experts out there… I have a finished product classified as 3403.19. Under the NAFTA RoO, 3403.19 will qualify for NAFTA with a tariff shift from any other HTS, including 3403.19. This is my deal: my company manufactures the material […]