Country of Origin Determination demo
For importers: where a product is made, rebuilt from the plant's own router and argued by a challenger before counsel signs. 1:24
What the demo shows
Proves a product's customs origin station by station from plant records, for importers
Agents ask the plant in fixed fields for each operation's minutes, costs and photo, read its router and bill of materials, and build a strip of each station's country, operations and value added, with rulings found on both sides. A challenger argues as a CBP reviewer would that the work is only finishing, and its questions are answered with records or handed to counsel, while a what-if prices duty, Section 301 included, under each possible origin. The manager prepares the determination, counsel signs it as a legal position, and counsel and the director sign any binding ruling request, with nothing privileged attached.
Transcript
- Country of Origin Determination proves where a product is made. Corinne starts the agents and tells them: leave the motor out.
- The plant's router arrives in fixed fields: 2.1 hours of machining, 30.6 percent of the price added in Mexico.
- A challenger argues the castings already had the pump's shape; Corinne sends the plant a follow-up.
- If CBP called it Chinese, Section 301 would add 1,331,400 dollars a year. Corinne prepares it as Mexico.
- Days later, with both plants' answers in, counsel opens the file and both hard questions, and signs it as a legal position.
- He records reading the key ruling and signs the request: the first lot enters as Chinese until CBP rules.
- The director reads it and signs second, so no one acts alone, and it goes to CBP.
- Seven stations proven before a single pump is called Mexican.
- Built on Botminds: agents, data, screens and governance on one platform.
The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.