U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the draft agenda for the 70th session of the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System Committee, which will be held in Brussels Sept. 5 to Sept. 23. 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.
- cellular bamboo panels
- coffee makers
- commercial utility vehicles
- cough lozenges
- cryptocurrency mining machines
- dental dams
- display cover glass
- dual-system solar water heaters
- edible collagen casings for sausages
- fixed and mobile bleachers
- glass fibers
- GPS running watches
- hydraulic hammers
- protein powder
- PVC canvas
- rehydrated dried fish
- RF generators
- rooibos tea
- self-propelling ice filling machines
- serving and delivering robots
- sesame snacks
- strip lights
- thin bricks
- traffic enforcement lasers
- turbo-shaft engines
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