Operations including the oiling of a machine, the fitting of a transformer to adjust electrical voltage and the uploading of software patches to a machine tool do not constitute manufacturing or use, and do not render the machine tool ineligible for unused merchandise drawback, CBP said in a recent ruling. The operations do not transform the machine tools into a new product but merely make them operational for the end customer, CBP told Knuth Machine in HQ H290897, issued July 28 and publicly released Aug. 26.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 26 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
In the Aug. 25 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 33), CBP published a proposal to revoke rulings on flocked paper sets.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
In the Aug. 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 32), CBP published a proposal to revoke rulings on polypropylene fibrillated yarn.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 22 with a single headquarters ruling. The ruling, HQ H318739, pertains to the coastwise transportation of a floating wind turbine unit and was dated July 6, 2021 (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP released its Aug. 25 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 33), which includes the following ruling actions:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: