Customs Management And Measures For Import Of US Textiles

In 2008, with the end of the US quantitative restrictions on textile products.

As textile and garment exporting enterprises in the US, it is necessary to understand customs management and related measures of textile import in the US.

This article provides a reference for us textile and garment enterprises to smooth customs clearance at the US ports from the US tax code structure, the restricted textiles category, the US customs import and export textile management and related measures.

1. The United States tax code structure and textile restriction category 1, the US tax code structure. The United States began implementing tariff regulations based on the commodity name and coding coordination system (referred to as the coordination system) in 1989.

As with all coordinating parties, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States adopted the general rules, classification notes, chapter notes, sub annotations and the 6 digit coded commodity list of the "coordination system".

At the same time, on the basis of the original "coordination system", the United States has added its own annotations, and has made corresponding provisions and official explanations for understanding the commodity and its layout structure; and according to the needs of the country, it has added 4 sub categories on the basis of the 6 bit coding target of the "coordination system", expanding the number of sub items to 10.

In the United States, the seventh, eighth set of "coordination tax rules" is coded as the tax item, which is used for levying customs duties. At the same time, ninth, tenth additional codes are added to the seventh, eighth place according to needs, mainly for trade statistics and controlled use.

Such a harmonized tariff for special needs is called the tax code / statistics coordination catalogue.

The catalogue is legally enacted through the domestic legislative procedure of the United States. Any importer and exporter can search and download the official website of the US customs.

One of the main bases of customs duties imposed by us customs is the customs value of the imported goods.

The legal basis for the customs to assess the value of imported goods is the 402nd section of the Tariff Act (Amendment) of the United States in 1930, which has been amended in the trade agreement act of 1979.

In most cases, the value basis of Customs assessment is the paction value of goods. If the paction value is uncertain, the imported goods can be assessed according to a specific two level basis. These two level value bases are the same goods, the paction value of similar goods, the deduced value and the calculated value.

At present, the United States exceeds the average tariff level of more than three times the high tariff tariff accounts for about 7% of the total tax, tariff more than 15% of the tax accounts for about 4% of the total tax purposes.

High tariffs and tariff peaks are mainly embodied in textiles and garments, leather, rubber, ceramics, footwear and travel products, which are the main products of China's export to the United States.

Clothing and other textile products, whose category code is 3 bit code, first represents the fiber group ("2") indicates cotton and / or chemical fiber, the word "3" begins with cotton, "4" begins with wool, "6" begins with chemical fiber, "8" begins with silk or other cotton fibers except cotton, and second, third items represent items of goods (items are arranged in sequence according to yarn, fabric, clothing and other textile products, X00-X07 indicates yarn, X10-X29 indicates fabric, X30-X59 represents clothing, X60-X99 represents other textile products), and Chinese textile commodity codes and commodity names corresponding to specific category numbers can be found in the catalogue of temporary textiles exported to the US on the website of Ministry of Commerce. (2) American textiles restriction category: American restricted textiles include yarn and fabric in principle.

The United States has specified the category number of textiles and other related information, such as commodity names, tax rates, etc. in the 10 digit coded coordination tariff catalogue.

For imported textiles, we should first define its 10 coding in the "harmonized tariff code" and then manage it according to the corresponding category of the corresponding codes.

The Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) under the US Department of commerce is mainly responsible for the import and export of textiles and quota management. The type of textiles set up is corresponding to the 10 commodity codes in the catalogue of the United States Customs coordination tax code. Each category corresponds to a series of commodity codes.

Two, the United States Customs import and export of textiles and related measures 1, import textiles, customs clearance operations for imported textiles, the United States customs use the ELVIS electronic system, that is, Electronic visa information system (electronic customs information system), it is the United States Customs to implement textile quota documents and related data management system.

The system is linked to the textile exporting countries that have joined the system to pmit the export documents certifying by the exporting country, including the categories, quantities and related information of the export textile quotas.

Through this system, the two-way management of the quota in the United States and related textile exporters can be realized, and the risk of commodity deception in untrustworthy enterprises can be reduced.

When the textile exporting country applies the system, the exporter should prepare the paper document for reference, but it will eventually pition to paperless trade management.

At present, there are 15 countries joining the United States, mostly textile exporters. Besides China, they also include South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Philippines, Singapore and so on.

2. Customs import administration of the United States Customs. "Import" refers to the shipment of imported goods to the United States after the arrival of the port.

The importer must obtain an identity number of importers for official customs formalities.

This identification number must be marked on the import declaration document, and the customs declaration document is usually filed by the Customs at the place where the goods are released.

In addition to importing documents to the customs, importers should also provide commercial invoices and special customs invoices for imported goods.

The United States Customs generally selects more representative commodities for inspection and release of imported goods, so as to ascertain whether the imported goods belong to the national origin mark and check whether it is consistent with the description of the documents.

According to the agreement on the memorandum of understanding between the government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the United States of America on textiles and clothing trade signed by Bo Xilai, the Minister of Commerce of China and Portman, the US trade negotiator in London in November 8, 2005, a compromise was reached on the volume and time schedule of the agreement concerning textiles.

In this agreement, the United States has phased quantitative control on 21 kinds of textiles imported from China. From January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008, it has 3 stages. The specific content can be seen as "the announcement of the Ministry of Commerce announcements of textiles export to us No. eighty-fourth in 2005".

For exporting goods to the United States during the period from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008, the Chinese customs can go through customs declaration and inspection procedures on the basis of the provisional export license of textiles, and the Chinese customs should handle the relevant inspection procedures with the border cargo customs clearance issued by the inspection and quarantine agency.

If the US Customs request, the importer must also provide the "certificate of origin of textiles exported to the United States" issued by the Chinese side.

The US classification of textiles, especially clothing, is very detailed and specific.

According to the classification of textile trade agreements signed between China and the United States in 2005, 21 products are announced in China, while the 34 Sino US agreements are covered by the US side.

From the products announced by the US, we can see that it is further subdivided on the basis of the 21 products, for example, the cotton knitted shirts are further divided into men's and women's.

In this way, the United States further divides the 9 products in the agreement into 2 sub categories, and the 2 products are further subdivided into 3 sub categories, so that 13 categories can be divided by subdivision.

The US side claims that the agreement includes 34 categories. In fact, this is not consistent with the rules of Customs Administration and statistics.

In the process of Sino US negotiations, the two sides have been around 21 kinds of products, and there are no 34 categories of concepts. Finally, the agreement reached between the two sides is also clear about 21 products. The management in the future is also aimed at the 21 products.

By means of refining classification to achieve import control, the United States must attract the attention of export enterprises.