The Canadian Parliament is moving the successor to NAFTA along, so that a March ratification vote is still looking likely, news from Canada says. While the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be reviewed by the agriculture, natural resources and industry/science/technology committees, not just the trade committee, the other committees only have until Feb. 25 for that review, a report from ipolitics said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Feb. 19. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Feb. 18, according to CBP:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Feb. 7. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Feb. 6, according to CBP:
CBP published several thousand prospective rulings in 2019 on its Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database. The agency issues its rulings from either the National Commodity Specialist Division in New York, which handles issues like classification, country of origin, marking and preferential treatment, or the Office of Regulations and Rulings at CBP headquarters in Washington, D.C., which may also decide other issues, such as valuation, drawback, exclusion order enforcement and liquidation.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Jan. 28. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Jan. 27 or 28, according to CBP:
A pump assembly assembled in Mexico is subject to Section 301 duties, even though the electric motor that powers the pump is the only Chinese component and all of the other parts are Mexican, CBP said in a recent ruling. The assembly process in Mexico does not result in a substantial transformation of the motor, so the pump assembly remains a product of China, CBP said in HQ H303864, issued Dec. 26 and posted to the agency's CROSS database Jan. 9.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated with 43 rulings on Jan. 9. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Jan. 9, according to CBP:
The International Trade Commission posted the 2020 Basic Edition of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The new HTS implements the U.S.-Japan trade deal that took effect Jan. 1, as well as changes to eligibility for African Growth and Opportunity Act benefits. Changes to units of quantity are also made to the tariff schedule, resulting in the complete elimination of UOQ "X" from the tariff schedule (except for in Schedule B), and new statistical breakouts are added in chapters 17, 38, 72, 76, 83, 84, 85 and 87. The changes took effect Jan. 1.
A portable solar charger with a plastic cover on its photovoltaic panel does not qualify for an exclusion for off-grid and portable panels from Section 201 safeguards on solar products from China, CBP said in a recently published ruling. The relevant exclusion covers only portable and off-grid panels that are foldable or that have glass covers, so Arlo’s chargers with plastic covers don’t qualify, CBP said in HQ H299136, issued in May but only posted to CBP’s Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database on Dec. 18.
The International Trade Commission posted the 2020 Basic Edition of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The new HTS implements the U.S.-Japan trade deal that took effect Jan. 1, as well as changes to eligibility for African Growth and Opportunity Act benefits. Changes to units of quantity are also made to the tariff schedule, and new statistical breakouts are added in chapters 17, 38, 72, 76, 83, 84, 85 and 87. The changes also took effect Jan. 1.