Long-term supplier declaration

Our customers occasionally request a long-term supplier declaration from us. Unfortunately, it is difficult for us to answer such requests. The question of whether goods supplied by us have a preferential origin or not is not easy to clarify, as this is different for each product and, moreover, for each unit quantity. So, we have a product-dependent and a unit-dependent value added in our company.

Let's assume that we have a manufacturing cost of €5 and a material cost of €10 for 10 assemblies. We can only show preferential origin if large parts of the material come from contracting countries (EEA, etc.). Unfortunately, this is rarely the case for electronic components (keyword China). So, quantity 10 of the product would not be eligible for preference. However, we may have manufacturing costs of €4 for 100 assemblies and only material costs of €2, in which case we could confirm preferential originating status.

In principle, we would have to run an evaluation for each assembly and each possible number of units to check how high the value added is and how high the proportion of material without preferential originating status is. Our customers would then almost certainly always receive a list with and a list without preferential origin. In some cases, they might even receive the same assembly on both lists, depending on the number of units.

This is not really practicable, which is why we cannot issue a long-term supplier's declaration.