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MID Support
U.S. Customs requires the Manufacturer's Identification Code for certain shipments to the United States.
What is Manufacturer’s Identification
Manufacturer's Identification (MID) includes details of the manufacturer of the goods which is required in some cases by the US customs. MID includes the full business name and postal address of the manufacturing supplier as well as a specific code based on the manufacturer's name and country.
MID is required for:
Any order shipped to the USA, with a declarative value to customs above $800, including at least one product manufactured in China.
Any shipment to the USA with a declarative value to customs higher than $2,500 (regardless of the Country Of Origin of the products).
Configuration
Configure the following MID fields:
MID Code: A unique identifier generated from the manufacturer's name and location.
MID Address: The full postal address of the manufacturing supplier.
MID Name: The complete business name of the manufacturing supplier.
To generate an MID Code
The Global-e Crossborder app gets the MID information from the Product Meta fields in the Products section.
If the required data is not already available in your system or cannot be obtained from your manufacturer(s), you can generate the MID code by following the steps below.
Collect Supplier Information: Ensure your manufacturing supplier has provided their complete business name and postal address. This information is essential for defining the MID code.
Generate the MID Code
Identify the two-letter ISO country code for the supplier’s country (e.g., GB for the United Kingdom, NL for the Netherlands, DE for Germany).
Use the first three letters of the supplier's first and second names (if applicable).
Extract the highest numerical digits (up to four) from the address line.
Use the first three letters of the supplier’s city name.
Example:
Supplier: Ozrock, 92 Alice Springs Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001
MID Code: AUOZR92MEL
MID Address and MID Name configuration
No special formatting is required for the MID Address and MID Name fields. These fields should be filled exactly as provided by the supplier's data.
Example:
MID Address: 92 Alice Springs Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001
MID Name: Ozrock
Adding MID to Shopify
For Global-e to provide the MID information to the carrier and display it on the commercial invoice, this data must be available in Shopify and transferred to Global-e using the following configuration.
Create the relevant Shopify metafields.
Go to Settings > Custom Data > Products > Add definition.
For more information see the Shopify Metafield Guide.
Note: If the manufacturer of your goods may vary between variants of the same product, the metafields should be created as "variant metafields" in Shopify, rather than as "product metafields."
Update each product/variant’s metafields with specific MID data.
This can either be edited in bulk, or added to each product/variant individually.
Note that if you have various manufacturers with different IDs, the metafields should be set individually for each product/variant, to reflect the manufacturer they originate from.
Provide Global-e with the associated keys to enable the final configuration required for presenting the MID data on commercial invoices.
The associated keys can be found on each metafield page in Shopify in the Namespace and Key field.
See the example below in which the key is MID Address.
