Entryway Intercom Camera Importer Says Products From Mexico, Not China
In a complaint brought April 28, importer Chamberlain Group said CBP wrongly found its entryway intercom and camera systems had originated from China, not Mexico (Chamberlain Group v. United States, CIT # 24-00198).
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One of the products’ components is a printed circuit board assembly from China, it said. But those circuit board assemblies were substantially transformed in Mexico into entryway cameras after work by “skilled labor at dozens of workstations, using specialized equipment,” by which they were combined with “wire harnesses, cables, terminal blocks, molded parts, standing steel, a touch-operated video screen, coaxial cable, a camera assembly, a wide range of microcomponents, fasteners, solder and other components.”
It said the intercoms have a different character than their component parts. CBP should have found them to originate from Mexico, it said.