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ITC Issues Final Report on Proposed HTS Changes for January 1, 2007 (Part VIII)

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a final report to the President in connection with its investigation of proposed modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) that are expected to take effect on January 1, 2007.

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This final report, entitled, Proposed Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S., is part of ITC investigation number 1205-6 which was instituted in September 2004, in conjunction with the third review cycle of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS).

This is Part VIII of a multi-part series of summaries on the ITC's final report. Part VIII highlights the proposed changes to HTS Chapters 27 and 28 as set forth in Appendix B. See future issues of ITT for additional summaries.

Proposed Changes to HTS Chapters 27 and 28

Appendix B of the ITC final report sets forth the following proposed changes for HTS Chapters 27 and 28 (see report for complete details):

2826.11, 2826.11.10 and 2826.11.50 would be deleted 2826.19.00 would be superseded by 2826.19.10, 2826.19.20 and 2826.19.90 2826.20.00 would be deleted 2826.90.00 would be superseded by 2826.90.10 and 2826.90.90 2827.33.00, 2827.34.00 and 2827.36.00 would be deleted 2827.39.55, 2827.39.60 and 2827.39.65 would be added 2827.39.50 would be renumbered as 2827.39.90 2830.20 and 2830.20.10 through 2830.30.00 would be deleted 2830.90.00 would be superseded by 2830.90.10, 2830.90.15, 2830.90.20 and 2830.90.90 2833.23.00 and 2833.26.00 would be deleted 2833.29.40 and 2833.29.45 would be added 2835.23.00 would be deleted 2835.29.30 would be added 2836.10.00 and 2836.70.00 would be deleted 2836.99.30 and 2836.90.40 would be added 2838.00.00 would be deleted 2842.90.00 would be superseded by 2842.90, 2842.90.10 and 2842.90.90 2839.20.00 would be deleted 2839.00.00 would be superseded by 2839.90, 2839.90.10 and 2839.90.50 2841.10.00 and 2841.20.00 would be deleted 2841.90.40 and 2841.90.45 would be added 2852, 2852.00.10 and 2852.00.90 would be added 2825.90.45, 2827.39.20 and 2931.00.27 would be deleted subheading numbers in the first and third column (italicized) would be renumbered as the corresponding numbers in the second and forth column, respectively
2827.60.502827.60.512833.29.502833.29.51
2834.29.502834.29.512837.19.002837.19.01
2837.20.502837.20.512841.50.902841.50.91
2843.29.002843.29.012915.70.002915.70.01
2916.15.502916.15.512916.31.102916.31.11
2918.11.502918.11.512918.21.502918.21.51
2925.19.902925.19.912931.00.252931.00.26
  1. 1.00.00 would be renumbered as 2853.00.00

(See ITT's Online Archives 06/08/06, 06/09/06, 06/13/06, 06/15/06, 06/16/06, 06/19/06, and 06/20/06 news, 06060815, 06060915, 06061320, 06061510, 06061620, 06061920, and 06062020, for Parts I-VII of BP summary of the ITC's final report on these proposed changes. See ITT's Online Archives or 04/25/05 and 04/26/05 news, 05042505 and 05042610, for Parts I and II of BP summary on the ITC'spreliminary report.

See ITT's Online Archives or 08/30/05 news, 05083005, for BP summary of ITC's request for proposals to amend the international HS in 2012.)

ITC Final Report (Inv. No. 1205-6 (Final), USITC Publication 3851, dated April 2006) available at http://hotdocs.usitc.gov/docs/tata/hts/Pub3851.pdf