TAA

  • TAA Required?

    Question: Is a TAA required when a U.S. company is contracted by a foreign company that has been awarded a U.S. government defense contract? Answer 1: In a word yes, a TAA is required in those circumstances.  A TAA, both, let’s the U.S. government know you’ll be working with that company and the parameters and […]

  • General Correspondence for existing TAA

    Question: Hello For a valid/existing Technical Assistance Agreement (TAA), if the foreign consignee to the TAA undergoes a name change but does not undergo a change in ownership/control or management (product lines remain the same, there’s no additional products or removal), can a General Correspondence be submitted to DDTC and/or a simply notification on letterhead […]

  • sublicensee NDAs on TAAs

    Question: Regarding sublicensee NDAs on DDTC TAAs, do you make/does DDTC require sublicensees to re-execute NDAs on every iteration/amendment to the TAA?  Or is it fine to just have a single sublicensee NDA, since it’s a stand alone document and the sublicensse never sees the TAA in the first place. Answer 1: No, sub NDAs […]

  • TAA COMPLIANCE

    QUESTION: We are manufacturing a product in Mexico and I had a few questions: We will not be using the tariff shift method and our manufacturing/assembly processes are not that complicated. We are trying to avoid the 301 Duties from China and make the product TAA compliant and will be using the RVC method. Scenario […]

  • Answers to QUESTION ON TAA COMPLIANCE

    askthemembership <askthemembership@icpainc.org> Mon, Mar 29, 2:50 PM  to membership QUESTION: We are manufacturing a product in Mexico and I had a few questions: We will not be using the tariff shift method and our manufacturing/assembly processes are not that complicated. We are trying to avoid the 301 Duties from China and make the product TAA compliant and […]