CBP recently held that a teleprompter base is properly classified as an article of aluminum rather than as a part of an electrical machine, upholding an August 2022 ruling after an importer requested reconsideration.
CBP CROSS Rulings
CBP issues binding advance rulings in connection with the importation of merchandise into the United States. They issue the rulings to give the trade community transparency of how CBP will treat a prospective import or carrier transaction. Common rulings include the tariff classification, country of origin, or free trade agreement applicability of merchandise, among other things. These rulings are available in CBP's Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database.
CBP has released its Oct. 23 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 42), which contains no rulings. It does include three decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and seven slip opinions from the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Rope-coiled decorative baskets imported by Kohl's are generally classified as made-up textile articles, rather than as ropes, and an especially large version of one of the baskets is big enough to be classified as furniture, CBP said in a Sept. 27 customs ruling.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Oct. 23 ruled that steel tubing with insulating material imported by Shamrock Building Materials is classifiable as steel tubes of heading 7306, rather than insulated conduit of heading 8547, subjecting the steel tubing to 25% Section 232 tariffs.
Importers of wooden cabinets and vanities from Malaysia and Vietnam that want to file a certification to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties don’t need to file a post-summary correction to do so, the Commerce Department said in a correction to a notice issued in July. Instead, importers should upload such certifications to CBP’s Document Image System (DIS), it said in a notice released Oct. 22.
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SAN DIEGO -- Although CBP has yet to indicate exactly when the agency will publish details on the new continuing education requirement for customs brokers, the agency's final rule will come out in the "near term," an official said during an Oct. 19 panel discussion at the Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON). In the meantime, partner government agencies including the FDA are still hammering out details about what offerings they will provide for continuing education credit.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 16, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 15 limited the scope of the testimony that will be offered by two of the government's witnesses in a customs spat on the classification of The Comfy, a wearable blanket imported by Cozy Comfort Co. Judge Stephen Vaden said fashion industry professional Patricia Concannon can testify only on topics related to the "sale, marketing, and merchandising of apparel," and that CBP national import specialist Renee Orsat "may not testify about opinions she formed during the Customs’ classification process."
CBP has released its Oct. 16 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 41). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.