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About The Webinar

With the new U.S. tariffs on Mexico and Canada, many goods will now be subject to a 25% tariff – unless they can enter the US under the USMCA. We will discuss the qualification of textiles, apparel, footwear, and bags for duty-free treatment, including certain requirements that gradually phased in post implementation.  We will also cover documentation for supporting USMCA claims, which is especially important in light of the enhanced scrutiny USMCA claims may face in this new era of higher tariffs.

Key Topics

  • Rules for originating textile and apparel goods, including:  

    • Limitation on goods imported as sets, e.g. bed in a bag or pants with belts; 
    • Requirements for sewing thread, narrow elastics and pocketing fabric in apparel; 
    • Requirement for coated fabric in household textile products; 
    • Flexibility for rayon fiber & filament 
  • Tariff preference levels (TPL) 

  • Special Regime Program 

  • Footwear rules of origin 

  • Bags and travel goods rules of origin 

  • Repairs & alterations 

  • Status of NAFTA marking rules 

  • Documentation to support claims 

Speaker

Elise Shibles

Partner, Advisory Committee; Textiles & Apparel Practice Leader; Forced Labor Practice Leader
415-490-1403 eshibles@strtrade.com

ELISE SHIBLES is a Partner, Advisory Committee with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., resident in the San Francisco office. She leads the firm’s Textiles and Apparel Practice as well as its Forced Labor Practice. She advises and counsels clients on trade agreement and preference program requirements for a variety of different types of goods under U.S. and non-U.S. trade programs including USMCA, QIZ, ASEAN-China and EU-Vietnam, among others. She also has extensive expertise in all aspects of textile and apparel trade and policy including classification, origin, marking, Section 301 tariff mitigation, drafting and reviewing proposed legislation, and strategy for trade negotiations. 

415-490-1403 eshibles@strtrade.com

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