A Finding Nemo story and picture book doesn't meet the classification requirements for heading 4903, which covers “Children’s picture, drawing or coloring books,” CBP said in a Sept. 15 ruling. CBP previously ruled that the book wasn't classifiable as a children's book and the company, Phidal Publishing in Montreal, requested reconsideration of that ruling. CBP's earlier ruling found the book to be classifiable in heading 4901 for “printed books.”
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The U.S. is "initiating new guidelines" to no longer allow imports from the West Bank or Gaza to be marked as “West Bank/Gaza,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in a Nov. 19 news release. The changes are meant to “ensure that country of origin markings for Israeli and Palestinian goods are consistent with our reality-based foreign policy approach,” he said. Under new guidelines from State, the marking requirements for the West Bank and Gaza will recognize those places as “politically and administratively separate,” it said. State didn't say when the changes take effect.
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CBP has identified three primary goals for the 21st Century Customs Framework, which has the potential to upend the approach to customs processing, said Maranda Kan, acting director of trade modernization, Office of Trade. Those goals are: “to achieve end-to-end supply chain transparency; to drive data-centric decision-making; and to diversify reasonable care standards,” she told a virtual U.S. Fashion Industry Association event Nov. 10.
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CBP has some qualms with the operational aspects of ending the de minimis exemption for goods subject to Section 301 tariffs, Executive Assistant Commissioner for International Trade Brenda Smith said while speaking on the virtual Coalition of New England Companies for Trade conference on Nov. 9. There's a CBP proposal for the change that's under Office of Management and Budget review (see 2009040026). “We do have some concerns,” she said.
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