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CTA Got 37 Deferrals Among 140 Tariff Codes It Sought to Escape

Of 140 tariff subheadings CTA urged the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative June 17 to remove from List 4, the association won 37 deferrals to Dec. 15 in key product areas like smartphones, laptops and tablets and PC monitors…

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when the final lists were released Tuesday (see 1908130058). The rest face 10 percent levies when the duties on the newly configured List 4A take effect Sept. 1. JLab Audio didn't get reprieve now. CEO Win Cramer was hit like “a kick in the gut,” he emailed us. He's “unsure and confused” why USTR “decided at one point to agree with us” earlier that Bluetooth headphones didn’t belong on the tariffs list “and then turn course,” he said. USTR didn’t comment Wednesday.