CBP Preparation for Next Section 301 Tariffs Underway

CBP should be ready for when the next round of Section 301 tariffs take effect on Sept. 1, and multiple preparations are ongoing, CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan said during the Aug. 21 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting in Buffalo, New York. While some products won't be tariffed until December (see 1908130018), "duties on a significant number of fourth tranche goods are still anticipated to go into effect Sept. 1, which is just a little over a week from now," he said. "CBP is prepared to implement this latest round of duties as it has been with all the other rounds." The agency has been working with "USTR to obtain a final list of the goods subject to tariffs, even though it started to change a little bit," will "make the necessary program changes to ACE" and "ensure trade stakeholders have all the information they need to file a proper entry."