CUSTOMS BROKERS CANADA

NAFTA CERTIFICATES
OF ORIGIN
NAFTA Certificates reduce or eliminate
the duty on all Imports into Canada!
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1992, started out in 1989 as the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The United Mexican States joined NAFTA in 1996.

Importers in Canada have benefitted from the gradual reduction and elimination of all Customs Duties between Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico.

NAFTA Preferential Duty Status is based on the NAFTA Certificate of Origin.

To qualify for NAFTA Preferential Tariff Treatment, goods must be wholly or partially produced or assembled in one of the three NAFTA Member Countries.

NAFTA Rules of Origin are extensive, complex, and not easily understood by most parties. As a result, some NAFTA Certificates of Origin are incorrectly completed; others should not be issued at all because the goods do not qualify!

Every company has different methods of calculating the cost of goods, especially in cases where they are produced or assembled and exported by third parties who are not the Importers into the country from which the goods are shipped

Although we are not in a position to advise any Client on eligibility of their products for NAFTA Preferential Status, we will certainly assist you in obtaining advice from NAFTA Authorities, from Customs Authorities or from NAFTA Consultants in Canada, the United States and Mexico.

For goods that do qualify under NAFTA Rules, but which are valued at less than CAD 1600.00, a NAFTA Certificate of Origin is NOT REQUIRED, but a NAFTA STATEMENT OF ORIGIN must be included in the commercial invoice.

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