CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., one of the leading voices in the House to end de minimis for e-commerce, said she wants President Donald Trump to remove all e-commerce from de minimis, so that it goes back to its original purpose of covering tourists' purchases. Given international direct-to-consumer shipping, "It’s become a vast gap in our customs regime," she said, causing a "flood of impossibly low-priced products that put American manufacturers out of business," and making it "almost impossible to enforce the ban on goods made with forced labor."
President Donald Trump's chief spokesman from his first term said that half-baked orders from the White House -- like an order to end de minimis for Chinese goods that CBP was not ready to implement -- is in part a result of Trump's memories of his staff trying to slow-walk and stop his tariff ideas.
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An increase in Section 232 tariffs on aluminum to 25% will also take March 12, the same date as changes to steel tariffs, as will a return on tariffs on aluminum from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, the EU and the U.K. after those countries’ exemptions and quota agreements are ended on that date.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP has created Harmonized Systems Updates 2505 and 2506. HSU 2505, created on Feb. 3, contains 84 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 32 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. It also includes the China/Hong Kong HTS updates.
In the Jan. 29 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59 No. 5), CBP published proposals to modify and/or revoke ruling letters concerning the tariff classification of propafenone hydrochloride and certain earrings with cubic zirconia.
In the fourth week of the second Trump administration, businesses awaited the details of what a reciprocal tariff approach could be -- and how fast the tariff schedule could be altered to have a different rate for every product that the U.S. exports to countries at a higher rate than the U.S. most-favored nation rate.
CBP has issued new guidance that describes an update to the order of reporting in ACE for multiple Harmonized Tariff Schedule classifications on the same entry summary line, according to a Feb. 5 cargo systems message. This pertains to instances when a Chapter 98 or Chapter 99 HTS code is required. ACE is the system of record for all entry summaries, CBP said.