MEMBER:I will be responding to NAFTA questions from our customers from now on, so I am looking for something that explains the situation.  Do you have some documentation on the whole NAFTA issue regarding the corrugated box?

RALPH YOUNG:  Thank you for sending me a copy of the Certificate of Origin, OBM No.1561-0098, CBP Form 434 (04/97) for review.  You are not the exporter or imported of goods.  However, you could be considered an intermediate producer associated with the entire product which would include the shipping container. I would recommend language such as the following to be inserted under the Description- Intermediate producer of corrugated shipping containers into which products are placed for shipment.  Origin of the containerboards used in the construction are from both US and Canadian sources.