Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped:
Part of: 2401 — Unmanufactured tobacco (whether or not threshed or similarly processed); tobacco refuse:
H035835 · 2010-10-22 — Internal Advice Request No. 08/019; Classification of tobacco by-products.
This ruling is in response to your memorandum, dated August 6, 2008, which forwarded a request for Internal Advice initiated by General Cigar Company, Inc. (General Cigar). At issue is the classification, under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), of two styles of tobacco by-products which are leftover from the production of premium cigars and are used to make mass market cigars. FACTS: The merchandise at issue is identified as tobacco by-product that is excess or scrap pieces of tobacco generated during the making of hand-rolled premium cigars. The components used in…
H014019 · 2007-10-01 — Modification of Headquarters Ruling Letter (HQ) 083490 of May 25, 1989; Classification of hand torn, broken or mangled cigar filler half leaves
On May 25, 1989, the U.S. Customs Service, now known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), issued Headquarters Ruling Letter (HQ) 083490 to McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, on your behalf, classifying cigar filler half leaves that had been hand torn, broken or mangled in subheading 2401.20.40 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). In 1989, subheading 2401.20.40, HTSUS, provided for "[u]nmanufactured tobacco . . .: [t]obacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped: [n]ot threshed or similarly processed: [o]ther: [n]ot containing wrapper tobacco, or not containing over 35…
J89737 · 2003-11-19 — The tariff classification of American tobacco that is exported to Canada where it is sliced, reconditioned, blended with various foreign tobaccos, re-dried, and then returned to the United States; 9802.00.80.
The merchandise in question will consist of flue-cured and oriental tobaccos that will be processed and blended, after importation into Canada. The foreign tobaccos in this blend will be both flue-cured and oriental types. The American component will be stemmed and stripped flue-cured tobacco only, shipped directly from the United States. It is stated that the U.S. origin tobacco “will usually make up over 50% of the tobacco portion of the final product.” Upon receipt in Canada, the blending will consist of the following steps: 1. The various types and grades of tobacco from different…
088409 · 1991-05-03 — Modification of Headquarters Ruling Letter (HRL) 087135; tobacco
In HRL 087135, dated December 3, 1990, you were issued, on behalf of Philip Morris Inc., a tariff classification ruling under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated (HTSUSA) for certain tobacco products. Upon review and reconsideration, we have determined that the classification analysis set forth in HRL 087135 is, in part, not appropriate. Accordingly, by this letter, we are modifying HRL 087135 to correct the inappropriateness of the classification analysis. FACTS: The tobacco products are identified and described as follows: 1. fines (small, broken bits of tobacco)…
085970 · 1990-03-08 — Scrap or refuse tobacco; leaf tobacco
After review of your submission, and consideration of the issues raised, we decline to revoke or modify our ruling HQ 084808, classifying the tobacco at issue in subheading 2401.20.80, HTSUSA. FACTS: Your letter describes the merchandise at issue here as "a tobacco by-product of dust and fines." Your request for reconsideration, as well as your original request, claims that this product should be classified as tobacco refuse under subheading 2401.30.90, HTSUSA. Our ruling letter, HQ 084808, dated September 12, 1989, classified the goods in subheading 2401.20.80, HTSUSA, as unmanufactured…
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