Trade Agencies Launch Regulatory Tracking for E-Cigarettes, Says Wyden
The International Trade Commission, CBP and the Census Bureau launched efforts on Oct. 20 to track the content and volume of e-cigarette imports into the U.S. market, Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in a statement that applauded…
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that decision. The U.S. previously didn’t track e-cigarettes “under any national regulatory or revenue system,” the statement said (here). “The actual volumes and sources of these imports are unknown because current tariff schedules do not contain reporting codes specific to these products. Instead, they are imported under broad basket categories where e-cigarettes are included with electrical equipment such as strobe lights and hand-held calorie counters.” Wyden pushed the ITC to regulate e-cigarettes in a June letter (see 1506080024). A spokesman for Wyden said the "new data breakouts will show up in the Jan. 1, 2016 Harmonized Tariff Schedule."