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Latest Harmonized System updates
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2202 Jan. 27, containing 297 ABI records and 71 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, it said in a CSMS message. The update includes International Trade Commission corrections to World Customs Organization records, it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will update three Section 301 tariff product exclusions in order to align the exclusions with changes made to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule on Jan. 27, USTR said in a notice posted to the agency website Jan. 25. The U.S. will implement broad changes to the HTS on Jan. 27, following amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature (see 2112230046).
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2201 Jan. 24, containing 11,682 Automated Broker Interface records and 2,629 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, it said in a CSMS message. The update implements the widespread changes to the HTS that occur every five years (see 2112230046). "For those who receive the HTS via email," CBP said, "the data will be released within 24-48 hours from" Jan. 25.
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, on Jan. 27. The changes are detailed in an annex to the proclamation published as a report by the International Trade Commission in December.
The 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule includes a more detailed scheme for radioactive elements, other than uranium, plutonium and thorium. Subheading 2844.40.00 (which formerly covered radioactive elements and isotopes besides natural uranium of subheading 2844.10, enriched uranium and plutonium of subheading 2844.20 and depleted uranium and thorium of subheading 2844.30) and its associated 10-digit subheadings are replaced by a series of new subheadings covering the following (with the description of the 8-digit subheading remaining as superior text):
“Flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, fit for human consumption” are now classifiable in new heading 0309. Previously, such flours, meals and pellets had been classifiable in the heading for the sea creature from which they were derived: 0305 for fish, 0306 for crustaceans, 0307 for molluscs and 0308 for other aquatic invertebrates.
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, Jan. 27 (see 2112270032). This is the sixth part of International Trade Today's multipart summary, covering stone, ceramics, glass, precious metals, base metals and articles of base metals of chapters 68-83.
CBP's Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2119 (see 2112290014) resolved some problems created by other HSUs, CBP said in a CSMS message. "Several areas performed updates in the system resulting in numerous HSU," the agency said. "These HSU had [commingled] data and/or missing information. Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2119 resolved these issues. We can confirm that all the updates are captured in HSU 2119."