CBP created Harmonized System Update 2507 on Feb. 28, containing 678 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 213 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2507 includes several PGA HTS flag updates as well as adjustments required by the verification of the 2025 Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
Imported goods subject to heading 9903 tariff subheadings, including goods from China, may qualify for informal entry only if the goods are valued at $250 or less, CBP indicated in answers to questions posed by the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America at a recent meeting.
CBP released notices late March 3 on the implementation of 25% tariffs on most goods from Canada and all goods from Mexico.
Tariffs on some of the new aluminum and steel derivatives listed in an annex to President Donald Trump’s proclamation expanding the Section 232 tariffs will take effect March 12, according to a pair of notices released by the Commerce Department.
CBP issued notices late March 3 on implementation of 25% tariffs on most goods from Canada and all goods from Mexico.
Tariffs on some of the new aluminum and steel derivatives listed in an annex to President Donald Trump’s proclamation expanding the Section 232 tariffs will take effect March 12, according to a pair of notices released by the Commerce Department.
WilmerHale International Trade Practice leader David Ross told panelists on a discussion of reciprocal trade that, "contrary to some earlier expectations, there are indications that the president is not planning to do a line-by-line" tariff adjustment to match tariff levels of trading partners, but, rather, to seek to quantify the costs of higher tariffs and other policies he sees as trade barriers, and to put a single tariff rate on the country's products.
CBP reiterated that the trade community should conduct accurate reporting and payment of additional duties related to the tariffs on goods made in China or Hong Kong, or else face enforcement "on patterns of non-compliance," the agency said in a Feb. 25 cargo systems message aimed at updating guidance on the tariffs on goods from China.
In the Feb. 19 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 8), CBP published proposals to modify and/or revoke ruling letters concerning the tariff classification of aluminum locking brackets and frozen baked goods.
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