US CBP allows unrestricted imports of ski/snowboard pants products
04 Nov '05
2 min read
Commissioner, Customs and Border Protection,has issued directive not to subject ski and snowboard pants to limits on category 647/648 and to release them from the current embargo for goods manufactured in the People's Republic of China.
In a release signed by James C. Leonard III, Chairman, Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, CITA has determined that certain imports of ski and snowboard pants
from China do not contribute to the market disruption found in category 647/648 goods.
CITA based this determination on its belief that these ski
and snowboard pant imports of Chinese origin were not, due to market disruption, threatening to impede the orderly development of trade in these products.
Specifically, CITA determined that ski/snowboard pants should not be covered by the 2005 safeguard quota.
CITA has received new information indicating that there is minimal domestic production of the ski/snowboard pants products; the ski/snowboard pants products are seasonal
products with limited end-use; the ski/snowboard pants products account for de minimis import quantities; thus, the
exclusion does not undermine the market disruption finding or require the readjustment of the quota calculation; and the ski/snowboard pants products are easily definable in the HTS schedule for enforcement purposes and the specificity of the definition ensures that this provision will apply only to those items that meet the narrow parameters established in the tariff items and in the statistical note of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS).
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