USAcoUSAco, a U.S. corporation, owns 100% of MEXSub, a Mexican corporation. USAco manufactures telecommunications equipment and sells the equipment to an unrelated foreign distributor at a price of $750 per unit. USAco also sells the same equipment to MEXSub, which then resells that same equi...
USAco, a U.S. corporation, owns 100% of MEXSub, a Mexican corporation.
USAco manufactures telecommunications equipment and sells the equipment to
an unrelated foreign distributor at a price of $750 per unit. USAco also sells the
same equipment to MEXSub, which then resells that same equipment to
unrelated foreign customers for $850 each. The conditions of USAco's sales to
MEXSub are substantially equivalent to those of USAco's sales to the unrelated
foreign distributor
Answer & Explanation
In this scenario, we are dealing with transfer pricing, which involves setting
prices for transactions between related entities within a multinational
corporation. The key issue here is whether the price at which USAco sells to
MEXSub is consistent with the arm's length principle, which requires that
transactions between related parties be conducted as if they were unrelated
parties.
Given that USAco sells telecommunications equipment to an unrelated foreign
distributor for $750 per unit and also sells the same equipment to its subsidiary
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