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CBP Won't Enforce Hong Kong Marking Rules Until Transition Period Ends

CBP “personnel from the Ports of Entry and Centers of Excellence and Expertise (Centers) are directed to neither issue marking notices, nor take further enforcement actions on goods produced in Hong Kong” until Sept. 25, the agency said in a…

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CSMS message. CBP is allowing for a transition period for the new marking requirements on goods produced in Hong Kong, which will have to be marked as from China starting Sept. 25 (see 2008100027). “Centers should take measures to inform accounts of these new marking rules for Hong Kong set forth in the” July 14 presidential Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization, it said. CBP still hasn't specifically addressed whether Hong Kong goods will be subject to the Section 301 tariffs on goods from China or other trade remedies.