On July 11, 2018, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) published a notice in the Federal Register explaining the procedures and criteria related to requests for product exclusions from the additional tariffs placed on goods from China on July 6.
USTR must receive requests to exclude a particular product by October 9, 2018. Per the notice, a docket will be opened on regulations.gov for the receipt of exclusion requests in docket number USTR–2018–0025.
Responses to a request for exclusion of a particular product are due 14 days after the request is posted.
Any replies to responses to an exclusion request are due 7 days after the close of the 14 day response period.
On July 6, 2018, USTR issued an intial press release with a link to an advance copy of this Federal Register Notice.
For more details regarding this important announcement, please click here for Crowell’s July 8 post discussing the specifics of the notice.