More Than 200 Products Being Reviewed by CBP for Exclusion From First Tranche of Section 301 Tariffs

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has made its way through 7,818 requests for exclusions from the first tranche of Section 301 tariffs, and has asked CBP to determine if it is practical to admit the products at the border that are covered by 238 requests. Many of the requests that are in this provisional status cover the same HTS codes. The agency is tracking where requests are in the process through spreadsheets on its website, and marks those that are worthy of an exclusion as "stage 3." But those exclusions are provisional until the customs authority says they're administrable.

As of Nov. 1, the last time the spreadsheet was updated, 816 requests have been denied. Even though when these requests are granted, it is across an entire harmonized tariff code, not to individual firms, the number of requests far exceeds the number of lines that were targeted -- 818 tariff lines (see 1806150003). None of the products in the smaller second tranche of tariffs have progressed to stage 3, or to denials.