The 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule includes a more detailed scheme for radioactive elements, other than uranium, plutonium and thorium. Subheading 2844.40.00 (which formerly covered radioactive elements and isotopes besides natural uranium of subheading 2844.10, enriched uranium and plutonium of subheading 2844.20 and depleted uranium and thorium of subheading 2844.30) and its associated 10-digit subheadings are replaced by a series of new subheadings covering the following (with the description of the 8-digit subheading remaining as superior text):
Olive oil is given a new classification framework in the 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Provisions in heading 1509 for organic olive oil are removed, and olive oil is now classified at the six-digit level by whether it is extra virgin, virgin or “other.”
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, Jan. 27 (see 2112270032). This is the 10th part of International Trade Today's multipart summary, covering photographic apparatus, measuring and checking instruments, clocks and watches, manufactured articles and cultural articles of chapters 90-97.
“Flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, fit for human consumption” are now classifiable in new heading 0309. Previously, such flours, meals and pellets had been classifiable in the heading for the sea creature from which they were derived: 0305 for fish, 0306 for crustaceans, 0307 for molluscs and 0308 for other aquatic invertebrates.
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, on Jan. 27. The changes are detailed in an annex to the proclamation published as a report by the International Trade Commission in December.
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, Jan. 27 (see 2112270032). This is the eighth part of International Trade Today's multipart summary, covering electrical machinery of Chapter 85 and vehicles, aircraft and vessels of chapters 87-89.
The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, Jan. 27 (see 2112270032). This is the seventh part of International Trade Today's multipart summary, covering machinery and mechanical appliances of Chapter 84.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 10-16:
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The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, Jan. 27 (see 2112270032). This is the sixth part of International Trade Today's multipart summary, covering stone, ceramics, glass, precious metals, base metals and articles of base metals of chapters 68-83.