CBP has released its April 28 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 16), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated April 27 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated April 27. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
CBP has released its April 28 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 16), which includes the following ruling actions:
Weighted blankets that are filled with glass beads for additional heft are classifiable as blankets, not as quilts, in the tariff schedule, CBP said in an Oct. 5 ruling. As imported by Franco Manufacturing, the weighted blankets aren’t sized to fit standard mattresses, as are quilts that are used as bedspreads, and the quilts are generally filled with soft materials, rather than hard materials like glass beads, CBP said in HQ H305101.
The Commerce Department doesn’t have a timeline for releasing its next set of controls on emerging technologies and its advance NPRM for foundational technologies, despite expectations from top officials both would be published before 2020 (see 1912110040), a Bureau of Industry and Security official said Tuesday. “I would have thought that they would be out earlier,” said Hillary Hess, director of BIS’ regulatory policy division, at a Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee meeting. “I think everybody would like to see them come out, but I’m not sure how long it’s going to take. I’m having trouble getting a bead on it myself.” Interagency working groups are reviewing the proposed emerging technology controls, which include potential restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence and robotics items, Hess said. Although BIS published a January interim final rule that placed export controls on geospatial imagery software, that rule stemmed from existing export administration regulations process in place since 2012, Hess said. “None of [the working group] rules have been published yet.” Hess said the ANPRM for foundational technologies is in internal review.
The Commerce Department doesn’t have a timeline for releasing its next set of controls on emerging technologies and its advance NPRM for foundational technologies, despite expectations from top officials both would be published before 2020 (see 1912110040), a Bureau of Industry and Security official said Tuesday. “I would have thought that they would be out earlier,” said Hillary Hess, director of BIS’ regulatory policy division, at a Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee meeting. “I think everybody would like to see them come out, but I’m not sure how long it’s going to take. I’m having trouble getting a bead on it myself.” Interagency working groups are reviewing the proposed emerging technology controls, which include potential restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence and robotics items, Hess said. Although BIS published a January interim final rule that placed export controls on geospatial imagery software, that rule stemmed from existing export administration regulations process in place since 2012, Hess said. “None of [the working group] rules have been published yet.” Hess said the ANPRM for foundational technologies is in internal review.
The Commerce Department doesn’t have a timeline for releasing its next set of controls on emerging technologies and its advance NPRM for foundational technologies, despite expectations from top officials both would be published before 2020 (see 1912110040), a Bureau of Industry and Security official said Tuesday. “I would have thought that they would be out earlier,” said Hillary Hess, director of BIS’ regulatory policy division, at a Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee meeting. “I think everybody would like to see them come out, but I’m not sure how long it’s going to take. I’m having trouble getting a bead on it myself.” Interagency working groups are reviewing the proposed emerging technology controls, which include potential restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence and robotics items, Hess said. Although BIS published a January interim final rule that placed export controls on geospatial imagery software, that rule stemmed from existing export administration regulations process in place since 2012, Hess said. “None of [the working group] rules have been published yet.” Hess said the ANPRM for foundational technologies is in internal review.
The Commerce Department still does not have a timeline for releasing its next set of controls on emerging technologies and its advance notice of proposed rulemaking for foundational technologies, despite expectations from top officials that both would be published before 2020, a Bureau of Industry and Security official said. “I would have thought that they would be out earlier,” said Hillary Hess, director of BIS’s regulatory policy division, speaking during a Feb. 4 Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee meeting. “I think everybody would like to see them come out, but I’m not sure how long it’s going to take. I’m having trouble getting a bead on it myself.”
CBP published notices in the Customs Bulletin revoking or modifying numerous rulings in 2019. These ruling revocations and modifications also apply to “any treatment previously accorded by CBP to substantially identical transactions.” When revoking or modifying a ruling, CBP is required by 19 USC 1625(c) to publish notice of the proposed action, and allow a period—generally one month—for comment before finalizing the action. An importer’s failure to advise CBP of “substantially identical transactions” or of a ruling not identified by CBP in these notices “may raise issues of reasonable care on the part of the importer or its agents for importations of merchandise subsequent to the effective date of this notice.” Rulings CBP revoked or modified in 2019 are as follows: