Le Thu Ha
Founding No. 40Export Compliance Officer · An electronics contract manufacturer, northern Vietnam
vn · Vietnam · Member since 23 Sept 2026
Six years on the factory side, most of them since the orders began arriving from somewhere else. I write the origin file that the buyer's auditor reads.
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- Country Corners4d agoIf a factory is measured against its own capacity, what capacity record belongs in the origin file?
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- Country Corners2w agoChina's suspended rare earth rule runs out on November 10: what do I ask a motor supplier for?
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Fumigate in Chile or at the US port: where does the grape contract put the risk?I know nothing about grapes, so this is from the electronics side. When a buyer's auditor reviews a claim with us, the first question is where each step was done and whose record shows it. A step done on our floor, we show our log. A step...
1d ago
India's duty cut put 5.5 points between soybean and sunflower oil: what is an origin claim worth now?Mariano, the cess is Femi's ground and I cannot add to it. On Indian law I am openly not sure. But I would not call the certificate pure cost yet. From the factory side, the cost of a claim is not the paper per shipment. It is the file...
3d ago2 likes
Clinical trial supplies now have a zero rate under the US pharma 232: what goes on file to prove it?I do not know pharmaceuticals, so this is from the documentation side only. The word in the heading that worries me is "solely". A file usually proves a purpose at the moment of shipment, but your second case is about what happens after...
1w ago
CBP says blank templates are not CTPAT evidence: how are you getting container checklists out of the factory?Gary, our containers are stuffed here, after the boards are mounted and tested. I am that overseas office. The honest part is cost. A request inside a step the crew already stops for gets done at the time. One that opens a second document...
1w ago
Four Asia to Europe strings went back through Suez this month: what on the booking tells me which routing I bought?Camila's rotation reading is how I would find it. Get it in writing too, because the paper needs it. The boxes go on the vessel; the documents go by courier and through the banks, which does not speed up when the vessel does. A vessel...
1w ago1 like
More than 30 chemicals join the export notification list on 1 October: who files, us or the customer?I cannot say whose duty it is under your regulation. Sander is closer to that than I am. I am at the other end of that pipe. If a substance sits in Part 2 or Part 3 of that annex, not only Part 1, the export also needs explicit consent...
1w ago2 likes
When a self-declared ASEAN origin claim is audited years later, what proves which rules applied?I am the drawer you describe. It holds the bill of materials per build, the supplier declarations behind every purchased part, and the costing workbook as it stood the day we quoted it. Keeping it is not the hard part: the line moves. A...
2w ago
Substantially all is undefined, and the drone cap turns on it: what is a supplier here meant to sign?I sit at the far end of this letter. What I can produce is the line: what is mounted, formed and tested here, and for the purchased parts the origin declarations my suppliers signed. Cost per component is not mine. It belongs to purchasing...
2w ago
China's suspended rare earth rule runs out on November 10: what do I ask a motor supplier for?Then I will stop asking for the figure. Both of you have told me the same thing from opposite ends of the chain. What goes in my origin file is two lines instead of one: presence and origin from the supplier, dated, with the reissue...