GoPro Camera housings are properly classified as cases under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 4202 rather than parts, the government continued to argue during March 15 oral arguments at the Court of International Trade. The arguments were meant to address GoPro's September motion for judgment (see 2208080041) and the government's response (see 2212140060).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative complied with Administrative Procedure Act requirements when it set lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on China, the Court of International Trade held in a much-anticipated opinion on March 17. After USTR provided more explanation of its tariff decisions on remand, judges Mark Barnett, Claire Kelly and Jennifer Choe-Groves held that the explanations were not made impermissibly post hoc and cleared APA requirements.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Mixes of frozen fruits should be classified under tariff provisions for food preparations, rather than in a subheading for "other" frozen fruits, because the latter provision is for frozen fruits other than the fruits listed in the relevant heading rather than complete fruit mixtures, importer Nature's Touch argued in a March 13 suplemental brief (Nature's Touch Frozen Foods (West). v. U.S., CIT # 20-00131).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 15 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
Industrial shredders imported by Vecoplan are classifiable as grinding and crushing tools under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule because the shredding operations break down material into small fragments and reduce the size of material by means of impacting the waste material, the importer argued in a March 15 motion (Vecoplan v. United States, CIT # 20-00126).
CBP correctly classified a supermodule for use in hydrogen fuel-cell powerplants as parts of electric generators rather than as a water gas generator, DOJ argued in a March 15 motion at the Court of International Trade (HyAxium v. United States, CIT # 21-00057).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: