[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3703-3704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01023]


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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE


Notice of Conforming Amendment To Reinstated 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 January 1, 2024, the U.S. International Trade 
Commission (USITC) implemented certain changes to statistical reporting 
categories in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States 
(HTSUS). As a result of these changes, USTR is making a conforming 
amendment to one previously reinstated exclusion associated with the 
Section 301 investigation of China Acts, Policies and Practices Related 
to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation.

DATES: The conforming amendment in the Annex to this notice is 
applicable as of January 1, 2024. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
will issue instructions on entry guidance and implementation.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general questions about this 
notice, contact Senior Associate General Counsel Philip Butler or 
Assistant General Counsel Rachel Hasandras 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

    Effective January 1, 2024, the USITC implemented certain changes to 
ten-digit statistical reporting categories of the HTSUS in accordance 
with its responsibility under section 484(f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, 
19 U.S.C. 1484(f). One of the previously reinstated exclusions in the 
Section 301 investigation of China's Acts, Policies and Practices 
Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and

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Innovation, as set out at 87 FR 17380 (March 28, 2022), is affected by 
the amended statistical reporting categories.

B. Conforming Amendment To Reinstated Exclusion Extension

    To maintain the pre-existing product coverage of the China 301 
actions, one conforming amendment to the corresponding note provision 
in the HTSUS is required. In particular, the Annex to this notice makes 
one conforming amendment to U.S. note 20(ttt)(iii)(27) to subchapter 
III of chapter 99 of the HTSUS, as set out in the Annex at 87 FR 17380 
(March 28, 2022).

Annex

    Effective with respect to goods entered for consumption, or 
withdrawn from the warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. 
eastern standard time on January 1, 2024, and before 11:59 p.m. eastern 
daylight time on May 31, 2024, U.S. note 20(ttt)(iii)(27) to subchapter 
III of Chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States is amended by deleting ``2929.90.5090'' and by inserting 
``2929.90.5090 prior to January 1, 2024; described in statistical 
reporting number 2929.90.5095 effective January 1, 2024'' in lieu 
thereof.

Juan Millan,
Acting General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade 
Representative.
[FR Doc. 2024-01023 Filed 1-18-24; 8:45 am]
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