Trade Compliance Daily · October 17, 2026 · Saturday
NORTH AMERICA TRADE COMPLIANCE BRIEF
CBP issues Harmonized System Update 2625 with Section 232 pharmaceutical changes
CBP's Harmonized System Update 2625, created September 29, 2026, contains 57 harmonized tariff records and 304 ABI records, including Section 232 pharmaceutical updates and corrections to assessment reduction rates. Separately, the USITC made affirmative final determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into freight rail couplers and parts thereof from the Czech Republic and India, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-77.
AD/CVD
USITC makes affirmative final determinations on freight rail couplers from Czech Republic and India
The U.S. International Trade Commission has made affirmative determinations in the final phase of its antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations into freight rail couplers and parts thereof from the Czech Republic and India, in Inv. Nos. 701-TA-775 and 731-TA-1759-1760. The bulletin states that it will be replaced by the news release, generally issued about three hours after a Commission vote. The determinations cover freight rail couplers and parts thereof from the Czech Republic and India.
CBP Enforcement & Import Compliance
CBP issues Harmonized System Update 2625 with Section 232 pharmaceutical changes and CPSC flag updates
CBP states in CSMS # 70220191 that Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2625, created on September 29, 2026, contains 57 harmonized tariff records and 304 ABI records, including Section 232 pharmaceutical updates and corrections to assessment reduction rates for live porcine animals and pork products under the Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Order. The update changes the CPSC HTS flag from CP2 to CP1 on HTS codes 2404120510, 2404120590, 2404121010, 2404121090, 3604109010, 8506100010, 8506401010, 8506500010, 8506600010, 8506800010, 9613200000, 9404210095, 9404291095 and 9404299095, and removes flag CP2 on HTS code 9613802010. CBP directs Section 232 pharmaceutical questions to traderemedy@cbp.dhs.gov and CPSC flagging questions to itdssupport@cbp.dhs.gov.