The International Trade Commission posted Revision 4 to the 2024 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The semiannual update to the HTS adds new 10-digit tariff numbers for a variety of products, including integrated circuits and plantation-harvested teak.

The International Trade Commission posted the 2024 Basic Edition of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The new HTS implements the restoration of AGOA benefits for Mauritania and their removal for the Central African Republic, Gabon, Niger and Uganda, as well as a lengthy list of 10-digit-level changes for fruits and vegetables, chemicals, medicaments and recycled aluminum. Changes were effective as of Jan. 1 unless otherwise noted.

The International Trade Commission posted Revision 9 to the 2023 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The semiannual update to the HTS adds new 10-digit tariff numbers for a variety of products, including various varieties of ornamental cut flowers and greens, certified organic vegetables, and medical scrubs and protective equipment.

The International Trade Commission posted the 2023 Basic Edition of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The new HTS implements the removal of AGOA benefits for Burkina Faso, as well as a lengthy list of 10-digit-level changes, including a bevy of new organic provisions for fruits and vegetables, more detailed provisions for plywood of tropical wood, and new tariff breakouts for pillows. Changes were effective as of Jan. 1 unless otherwise noted.

The WCO’s removal from its Harmonized System of six-digit subheadings for roll film cameras based on a low volume of trade means U.S. tariff provisions for cameras of heading 9006 are reorganized, though some of the provisions eliminated by the WCO remain in the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule at the eight-digit level.

Olive oil is given a new classification framework in the 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. Provisions in heading 1509 for organic olive oil are removed, and olive oil is now classified at the six-digit level by whether it is extra virgin, virgin or “other.”

The broadest set of changes to tariff classification in five years is set to take effect toward the end of January, as the latest set of amendments to the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System tariff nomenclature is implemented in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Announced by a presidential proclamation published Dec. 28, the changes are slated to take effect 30 days after that, on Jan. 27. The changes are detailed in an annex to the proclamation published as a report by the International Trade Commission in December.

The 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule includes a new note defining “semiconductor devices” in Chapter 85. Old Note 9(a), which defined “diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices” is replaced by a new note, renumbered 12(a) due to the addition of other, unrelated new notes to Chapter 85. The new Note 12(a) defines the term as follows:

“Flours, meals and pellets of fish, crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, fit for human consumption” are now classifiable in new heading 0309. Previously, such flours, meals and pellets had been classifiable in the heading for the sea creature from which they were derived: 0305 for fish, 0306 for crustaceans, 0307 for molluscs and 0308 for other aquatic invertebrates.

The 2022 Harmonized Tariff Schedule includes a more detailed scheme for radioactive elements, other than uranium, plutonium and thorium. Subheading 2844.40.00 (which formerly covered radioactive elements and isotopes besides natural uranium of subheading 2844.10, enriched uranium and plutonium of subheading 2844.20 and depleted uranium and thorium of subheading 2844.30) and its associated 10-digit subheadings are replaced by a series of new subheadings covering the following (with the description of the 8-digit subheading remaining as superior text):