How to Navigate the Section 301 Tariff Process
How to Navigate the Section 301 Tariff Process
Not sure if your goods qualify for a tariff exclusion? Here is a step by step approach provided by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to figure it out.
- Step One: Know Your HTS Subheading
- Every product subject to a proposed or ongoing Section 301 tariff action is identified by an 8-digit or 10-digit HTS Subheading. This search engine allows you to search by an 8-digit HTS Subheading to obtain information about a proposed or ongoing Section 301 tariff action.
- If you do not know the HTS subheading for your product, please contact your supplier, distributor, or customs broker.
- Don’t know what an HTS Subheading is? To learn more, visit https://www.usitc.gov/tariff_affairs/about_hts.htm.
- Step Two: Find Your HTS Subheading
- The HTS Subheadings are sorted into four separate tariff actions:
- The $34 Billion Tariff Action (List 1);
- The $16 Billion Tariff Action (List 2);
- The $200 Billion Tariff Action (List 3); and
- The $300 Billion Tariff Action (List 4).
- To determine if an HTS Subheading is subject to a proposed or ongoing Section 301 Tariff Action, enter the 8-digit HTS Subheading into the search field, and press SEARCH.
- Each HTS Subheading includes a corresponding article description.
- The HTS Subheadings are sorted into four separate tariff actions:
- Step Three: Submit a Comment or Exclusion Request Based on Your HTS Subheading
- If the comment period or product exclusion request period is open for a Section 301 tariff action, the due date will include a hyperlink that will direct you to the relevant regulations.gov electronic docket where a comment or product exclusion request may be submitted.
- For product exclusion status, visit the Product Exclusion Process section on the $34 Billion Trade Action (List 1), $16 Billion Trade Action (List 2), $200 Billion Trade Action (List 3), or $300 Billion Trade Action (List 4) webpages.
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