CBP Issues Harmonized System Update With Delay to Section 301 Tariff Increase

CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1820 on Dec. 18, containing 19,061 Automated Broker Interface records and 3,393 harmonized tariff records, it said in a CSMS message. The update includes changes related to the delayed increase of Section 301 tariffs on goods from China (see 1812180010), CBP said. Other changes "include the annual special program staged rate reductions mandated by the individual Free Trade Agreements," it said. "This update also contains modifications mandated by the 484 F Committee, the Committee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff Schedules. These adjustments are effective on January 1, 2019 and will be published within the change record, and chapters, of the 2019" Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States.