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Congress Requiring Exclusion Process for List 3 of Section 301 Tariffs

The mini-Omnibus bill that was signed by President Donald Trump Feb. 15 requires the creation of an exclusion process for the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs by March 17. The third tranche faces a lower tariff than the first…

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two rounds -- 10 percent -- and because of that, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has not allowed importers of those items to apply for exclusions. The USTR has to report to the congressional appropriations committees, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, by that date on the status of that process. Before that date, USTR will need to consult with those committees "regarding the nature and timing of the exclusion process," Congress wrote. The same bill also dedicated new funding toward processing Section 232 exclusion requests (see 1902140027).