U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the draft agenda for the 68th session of the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System Committee, which will be held in Brussels Sept. 6 to Sept. 28. The HSC’s responsibilities include issuing classification decisions on the interpretation of the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, which can take the form of published tariff classification opinions or amendments to the Explanatory Notes. The committee also considers amendments to the legal text of the Harmonized System.
For more information on classification issues at the WCO or HSC, please contact attorney Deb Stern at (305) 894-1007 or via email.
The HSC is slated to consider a number of issues at its upcoming meeting, including national practices regarding advance rulings. Also up for consideration is the classification of numerous goods, including the following.
- beeswax
- cellular bamboo panels
- coffee makers
- commercial utility vehicles
- corn cobs
- cutter/rippers
- diesel power generating sets
- digital smart pens
- dissolved gas analysis monitors
- edible collagen casings from sausages
- electronic speed controllers
- floor polishers
- fruit spreads
- GPS running watches with heart rate monitors
- heat-resistant glass lids
- herbal teas
- hot-rolled steel plates
- hybrid vehicles
- lavender essential oil
- microphones
- motorized flying inflatable boats
- on-street garbage containers
- partially defatted coconut powder
- plastic clothes hangers
- quilt bags
- rehydrated dried fish
- RFID/barcode readers
- rooibos tea
- rubber tires for construction and mining vehicles
- self-propelled articulated boom lifts
- solid oxide fuel cells
- soy bean flakes
- steam boiling generators
- taps serving instant boiling and chilled filtered water
- tobacco stems
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