Understanding Your Responsibility with Customs Classifications

Pacific Customs Brokers is offering a workshop on Harmonized System Tariff & Classification. The session will focus on H.S. Tariff Codes for importation of commercial goods into eitherCanada or theUnited States. This session will provide you with a solid foundation in the principles of commodity classification, along with information on obtaining binding rulings from Customs on your merchandise. You will also have a better understanding of how duties are determined and how certain Special Programs may assist you in lowering the duties that your business pays for imported goods.

Presentation Speaker:

April Collier, LCB, CCS - Licensed Customs Broker and Certified Customs Specialist with over 25 years experience in the industry. April has been teaching Customs Brokerage Classes for over 15 years and is a Senior Trade Compliance Advisor with Pacific Customs Brokers (USA).

Topics Include:

• Harmonized Commodity Description & Coding

• System

• History and Development

• Structure and Legal Text

• General Rules of Interpretation

• Additional Classification Aids

• Binding Rulings

• Duty Rates

• Counterveiling Duty

• Anti-Dumping Duty

• Informed Compliance and Shared Responsibility

• Harmonized System Book – A Tool to Ascertain

• H.S. Codes