The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 26. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
Section 301 (too broad)
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative seeks comments on whether it should again extend 99 exclusions for COVID-19 response-related products. USTR most recently extended them in March until Sept. 30 (see 2103050052). USTR will open a docket for comments on its website Aug. 27, it said. Comments are due by 11:59 p.m. EDT Sept. 27. “Subsequent to USTR’s announcement of the extension of the 99 exclusions for COVID-19 response products in March, the spread of COVID-19 in the United States initially declined, and domestic production of certain products covered by these exclusions increased,” USTR said. “With the recent spread of the Delta variant, COVID-19 cases in the United States are increasing again. In light of these changing circumstances, including the ability of the United States to obtain certain products domestically or from other sources, USTR is requesting public comments on whether to extend particular exclusions for COVID-19 products for up to six months.” The extension could last until March 2022.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 16-22:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 17. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 9-15:
The Court of International Trade extended to Oct. 4 from Sept. 2 the preliminary injunction preventing the liquidation of unliquidated customs entries with Section 301 lists 3 or 4A tariff exposure, said an order signed late Aug. 16 by Judges Claire Kelly and Jennifer Choe-Groves. The judges also extended to Sept. 3 from Aug. 20 the deadline for CBP to create a repository for the subject customs entries. It’s the court's third deadline extension since Kelly and Choe-Groves ordered CBP to establish the repository in a July 6 preliminary injunction order.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representatively should allow for goods that were subject to Section 301 tariffs at the time of entry to a foreign-trade zone to be tariffed at whatever rate is in effect when the goods are removed from the FTZ, the National Associations of Foreign-Trade Zones said in a recent letter to the USTR. The trade group offered support for the suspension on Section 301 duties that were related to digital services taxes, and said that "the notices confirm the application of Sec. 301 duty rates in effect at the time of Customs entry for subject merchandise admitted into a U.S. foreign-trade zone (FTZ) in mandated privileged-foreign (PF) status."