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CBP Posts Fact Sheet on Unit of Quantity Change Requests for HTSUS

CBP posted information about how industry and government agencies can request that the 484(f) Committee make changes to units of quantity in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Proposals for changing an HTSUS statistical suffix UOQ must be submitted…

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to 484f@usitc.gov by March 15, 2020, for the consideration at the spring meeting, and by July 15, 2020, for the fall meeting. Any changes would take effect on Jan. 1 in the following year, it said. “For the 484(f) Committee to consider a UOQ change request, the group or individual submitting the proposal is required to demonstrate that the replacement UOQ being proposed is better aligned with the entire industry’s measurement standards than the one that is currently listed in the HTSUS,” it said.