Apple Granted 10 of 15 Tariff Exclusion Requests for Mac Pro Parts
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative granted 10 of 15 categories of Chinese-sourced Mac Pro components Apple sought to have excluded from 25 percent Section 301 List 3 tariffs in July (see 1907260036), agency records show. Of the five…
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denials, USTR rejected all because Apple “failed to show that the imposition of additional duties on the particular product would cause severe economic harm to you or other U.S. interests,” said Sept. 23 notices posted recently in the public docket. The denials were for Mac Pro CPU heat sinks, BIOS printed circuit boards, AC power cables, caster wheel assemblies and data cables, the docket shows. Waivers were granted on the 10 other requests in mid-September. Apple didn’t comment.