Nearly 100 Section 301 Exclusions to Expire July 9
Some 100 exclusions from the first group of Section 301 tariffs will expire on July 9, after the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative reached a decision not to extend them, USTR said in a notice. The exclusions, found in U.S. Note 20(n) to subchapter III of Chapter 99 of the tariff schedule and entered under subheading 9903.88.11, had been created by USTR in July 2019.
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Among the previously excluded products that will now be subject to Section 301 tariffs beginning July 9 are electric motors, pump parts, construction equipment and agricultural vehicles, hubs and bearings, capacitors and switches and dental x-ray equipment.
USTR also extended 12 exclusions from the set of exclusions announced in July 2019 until Dec. 31. The extended provisions are those in U.S. Note(n)(8), (17), (18), (23), (28), (77), (85), (87), (88), (97), (98), and (106). Beginning July 9, they will be found in new U.S. Note 20(eee) and enter under subheading 9903.88.52.