[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 147 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42006-42007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16567]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Conforming Amendment to Product Exclusion: China's Acts, 
Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual 
Property, and Innovation

AGENCY: Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Effective July 1, 2021, the U.S. International Trade 
Commission (USITC) implemented certain changes to statistical reporting 
categories in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS). To conform with these changes, this notice makes a technical 
amendment to a product exclusion in this Section 301 investigation.

DATES: The conforming amendment in the Annex to this notice is 
applicable as of July 1, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions about this 
notice, contact Associate General Counsel Philip Butler at (202) 395-
5725. For specific questions on customs classification or 
implementation of the product exclusion identified in the Annex to this 
notice, contact [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background

    On July 1, 2021, the USITC, in cooperation with the interagency 
Committee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff Schedules, implemented 
certain changes in ten-digit statistical reporting categories of the 
HTSUS and in

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Schedule B under section 484(f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 19 U.S.C. 
1484(f). One of the product exclusions in the Section 301 investigation 
of China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology 
Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation, as set out at 85 FR 
85831 (December 29, 2020) and 86 FR 13785 (March 10, 2021), is based on 
one of the amended statistical reporting categories.

B. Technical Amendment to Exclusion

    The Annex to this notice conforms an existing product exclusion 
with the July 1, 2021 changes to ten-digit statistical reporting 
categories in the HTSUS. In particular, the Annex makes a technical 
amendment to U.S. note 20(qqq)(4) to subchapter III of chapter 99 of 
the HTSUS, as set out in the Annexes to the notices published at 85 FR 
85831 (December 29, 2020) and 86 FR 13785 (March 10, 2021).

Annex

    Effective with respect to goods entered for consumption, or 
withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time on July 1, 2021, U.S. note 20(qqq)(4) to 
subchapter III of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 
the United States is modified by deleting ``3808.94.5090'' and 
inserting ``3808.94.5090 prior to July 1, 2021; 3808.94.5080 or 
3808.94.5095 effective July 1, 2021'' in lieu thereof.

Greta Peisch,
General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative.
[FR Doc. 2021-16567 Filed 8-3-21; 8:45 am]
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