{"id":30259,"date":"2026-07-22T19:19:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/us-apparel-importers-face-brief-tariff-window-before-section-301\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:19:42","slug":"us-apparel-importers-face-brief-tariff-window-before-section-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/us-apparel-importers-face-brief-tariff-window-before-section-301\/","title":{"rendered":"US apparel importers face brief tariff window before section 301"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> of the Trade Act of *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> (*<\/span>*<\/span> U.S.C. \u00a7*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>) limits a balance-of-payments surcharge to *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> days unless Congress authorises an extension. President Trump imposed the *<\/span>*<\/span> per cent surcharge effective February *<\/span>*<\/span>, *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>, placing its statutory expiry on July *<\/span>*<\/span>. No extension legislation has advanced. According to US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) guidance, the surcharge applies to goods \u201centered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption\u201d before *<\/span>*<\/span>:*<\/span>*<\/span> a.m. EDT on July *<\/span>*<\/span>. Consequently, the precise customs-entry timestamp determines whether a shipment is subject to the additional *<\/span>*<\/span> per cent duty.<\/p>\n

The proposed replacement is considerably more significant. In a June *<\/span>, *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>, Federal Register notice (*<\/span>*<\/span> FR *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>), the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) proposed additional Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> duties of *<\/span>*<\/span> per cent or *<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span> per cent on imports from *<\/span>*<\/span> economies for failing to enforce prohibitions on forced-labour goods. Unlike Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>, Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> contains neither a statutory duty ceiling nor an automatic expiry. As of July *<\/span>*<\/span>, the proposal has not been finalised, and no determination has been published.<\/p>\n

For apparel, the underlying tariff burden is already among the highest in the US tariff schedule. The US International Trade Commission*<\/span>*<\/span>;s Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) sets Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) duties on certain cotton knitwear under Chapter *<\/span>*<\/span> at up to *<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span> per cent, while man-made-fibre (MMF) garments attract significantly higher rates. Knitted MMF shirts (HTS *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span>*<\/span>) and MMF T-shirts (HTS *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span>*<\/span>), for example, carry a *<\/span>*<\/span> per cent MFN duty. Adding a proposed *<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span> per cent Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> duty to a *<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span> per cent MFN cotton garment would raise the combined tariff burden to about *<\/span>*<\/span> per cent, compared with the current effective rate of *<\/span>*<\/span>.*<\/span> per cent under the temporary Section *<\/span>*<\/span>*<\/span> surcharge.<\/p>\n

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Cost and supply-chain analysis Section *** of the Trade Act of **** (** U.S.C. \u00a7****) limits a balance-of-payments surcharge to *** days unless Congress authorises an extension. President Trump imposed the ** per cent surcharge effective February **, ****, placing its statutory expiry on July **. No extension legislation has advanced. According to US Customs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}