ITC Issues Revision 18 to 2019 HTS, Granting Mali Special AGOA Status
The International Trade Commission issued Revision 18 to the 2019 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The only change was the addition of Mali to the list of countries in Note 2(d) to subchapter XIX of chapter 98 that are considered lesser developed beneficiary countries for the purposes of textile imports under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The addition of Mali was mandated by Presidential Proclamation 9955, issued Oct. 25. The HTS changes took effect Nov. 30.
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The ITC had previously issued Revision 17 to the HTS, which added new subheading 9903.88.34 and U.S. Note 20(mm) to subchapter III of chapter 99 to implement a new set of product exemptions from the $200 billion third tranche of Section 301 tariffs on goods from China. Several other conforming changes were also made to subchapter III. Those changes took effect Sept. 24.