Thanks for your reply, but a strategy in getting the best overall deal on taxes with the foreign tax credit is to see if classifying dividends as nonqualified is better.
"In summary, when a taxpayer has foreign-source qualified dividend income with foreign tax paid on the income, the tax adviser may need to test the tax return computations under the above two scenarios, i.e., qualified dividend income scenario versus investment income scenario, to determine which results in the lower overall tax burden." https://protaxconsulting.com/blog/maximizing-foreign-tax-credit/
So, it does seem to be a choice. Also, foreign stocks can generate qualified dividends if they have " stock for which the dividend is paid is readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States."
But it does seem odd to classify the same stock from one brokerage firm as qualified and from another as unqualified. But doing so helps to decrease the taxes substantially overall because of the foreign tax credit calculations. The "sweet" spot is to reclassify only the stocks on one brokerage and not another.
