U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the draft agenda for the 71st session of the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System Committee, which will be held in Brussels March 13-24. 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 a possible strategic review of the HS and changes of threshold values for the next review cycles. Also up for consideration is the classification of numerous goods, including the following.
- caramel popcorn
- coffee makers
- commercial utility vehicles
- cryptocurrency mining machines
- dental dams
- display cover glass
- dual-system solar water heaters
- edamame beans
- electric lamps
- fixed and mobile bleachers
- fruit beer
- glass fibers
- GSP running watches
- hydraulic hammers
- interchangeable tools
- lighting strings attached to frames
- photovoltaic panels
- pizza mixes
- power drills/drivers
- rehydrated fish
- rooibos tea
- self-propelling ice filling machines
- serving and delivering robots
- sesame snacks
- strip lights
- thin bricks
- traffic and speed enforcement lasers
- transformer bushings
- turbo-shaft engines
- winter garden rooms
- works trucks
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