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I tried to call my old customs broker to get his take on this but he is out of the office this week. Have you used Norman Jensen before as they are typically very good and they deal with canada -
www.ngjensen.com/
I would be going berzerk at my agent for not straightening this out. When you brought the goods into Canada did they not force you to show the original bill of ladening into the U.S.? Did you import the goods into Canada as having come from Taiwan? Do you have any info concerning the origins of the goods or anything identifable?
Also, the tariffs for goods are not the same from Taiwan to Canada and from Taiwan to the US as I used to have to do different customer price books because of this. I can see customs wondering if something funny was going on with the original to avoid tariff.
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No, I'm using Milgram out of Canada as until very recently the majority of what we did was export materials to Canada and then re-import finished goods made from them.
When the goods were sent into Canada, the only paperwork we sent was the invoice showing that I purchased them in California and a certificate of original that stated they were originally manufactured in Taiwan. No original BOLs/Invoices between Taiwan<->USA.
These goods have already had all duties paid. Someone brought them into the US from Taiwan, and would have had to pay US duties. Then I shipped them to Canada and paid duties for that. Now I want to bring them back and will pay duties on them (good deal for US customs, two duties on a single set of goods).
As part of the shipment, there are 40 or so rolls that I ordered direct from another mill in Taiwan and had shipped to Canada. I'm bringing those into the US now, but we've got all the paperwork on that. Its really just these stupid nine rolls.
I think the problem customs had was that the invoice was pro forma. I own all the goods myself, so the "invoice" was really just a representation for customs of the value of the goods so they could calculate the duty.