Country of Origin Rules for Strategic Importers

Do you know where your product is from? More importantly, do you know where CBP thinks your product is from? The origin of an imported product has always been a critical piece of information to ensure you are properly declaring and marking goods that are imported into the U.S. However, the imposition of country-specific tariffs, such as the Section 301 duties on Chinese-origin goods, has increased the significance of origin determinations while global supply chains are becoming more complex. Products often include components or sub-assemblies from multiple countries and undergo varying degrees of processing in each location.

This webinar will provide an overview of the rules to determine the correct country of origin and marking for non-preferential purposes. In addition, we’ll address ways that importers have used origin rules to assess possible strategies to legally reduce or avoid tariffs by changing or shifting portions of the production process to impact the origin of the product.