LEDs Escape +10% Tariffs Until Dec. 15

摘要

In an Aug. 13 announcement, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) delayed the 10% tariffs on LEDs imported from China until Dec. 15, 2019. Many lighting execs had expected that LED lamps would be on the list of products slated for tariffs on Sept. 1 on the USTR List 4A. However, some electrical products were included in the 122-page document that listed hundreds of products subject to the tariffs. Deep in the list in between everything from "live birds of prey" to many different types of food, clothing, steel and iron products and other industrial and consumer goods were ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes (HTS Subheading 8504.10.00) and several different types of electrical filament lamps: 1. Electrical filament lamps, voltage not exceeding 100V, having glass envelopes n/o 6.35 mm in diameter, suitable in surgical instruments (8539.29.20).