FourT6and2
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If declared customs value is under $2,500, it's a standard clearance and relatively painless and fast. You pay base duty. Reciprocal tariffs are applied according to IEEPA tariff directives. If declared customs value is higher than $2,500, a you need a formal clearance. That's more paperwork, time, and fees.
Reciprocal tariffs are applied differently based on country of origin. The country of origin does NOT mean the country where a good ships from. It means the country where a good was manufactured. If it's an unassembled guitar amp kit, consisting of parts manufactured all over the world (resistors from USA, capacitors from Taiwan, pots from China, jacks from the U.K., etc.), I'm not sure how a suitable Harmonized Tariff Code would be selected. The parts are not assembled into a final product. So it's not like the country of origin would be the U.K. It would have to be listed out for each individual electronic component. Maybe.
Maybe there's an HTS code for a bundle of electronic parts that will then be later assembled? I don't know.
IEEPA Reciprocal tariffs on goods from the U.K. stack. i.e. It's 10% ON TOP OF the original base duty. By contrast, the reciprocal tariff on goods from the E.U. do not stack. They cap at 15%. So if the base duty is 5%, the total is brought up to 15%. For the U.K., if the base duty is 5%, it's added to the reciprocal tariff.
Again, country of origin is NOT where the item ships from. It's where it was manufactured. If it's a fully built amp with parts from all over the world, the country of origin is where it was finally assembled into the end product. A bunch of parts in a box... I have no idea.
It's your job as the importer to provide the correct HTS codes for export and import. Not the shipper. And you can direct US Customs and Border Patrol and/or the shipping carrier to use whatever codes you want.
Reciprocal tariffs are applied differently based on country of origin. The country of origin does NOT mean the country where a good ships from. It means the country where a good was manufactured. If it's an unassembled guitar amp kit, consisting of parts manufactured all over the world (resistors from USA, capacitors from Taiwan, pots from China, jacks from the U.K., etc.), I'm not sure how a suitable Harmonized Tariff Code would be selected. The parts are not assembled into a final product. So it's not like the country of origin would be the U.K. It would have to be listed out for each individual electronic component. Maybe.
Maybe there's an HTS code for a bundle of electronic parts that will then be later assembled? I don't know.
IEEPA Reciprocal tariffs on goods from the U.K. stack. i.e. It's 10% ON TOP OF the original base duty. By contrast, the reciprocal tariff on goods from the E.U. do not stack. They cap at 15%. So if the base duty is 5%, the total is brought up to 15%. For the U.K., if the base duty is 5%, it's added to the reciprocal tariff.
Again, country of origin is NOT where the item ships from. It's where it was manufactured. If it's a fully built amp with parts from all over the world, the country of origin is where it was finally assembled into the end product. A bunch of parts in a box... I have no idea.
It's your job as the importer to provide the correct HTS codes for export and import. Not the shipper. And you can direct US Customs and Border Patrol and/or the shipping carrier to use whatever codes you want.
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