Re: US Tariff Ruling N297495 = 2.6% mandatory tariff on bitcoin mining hardware
Not exactly from now on. I just got served a notice of action today for miners I imported in November of 2017 that the now clarified classification will retroactively be applied to all of my imports and this could result in additional fees due.
Since the miners were more costly then the 2.6% is a going to be a lot more per miner.
Since the miners were more costly then the 2.6% is a going to be a lot more per miner.
Now THAT is something I would fight in court!
I do not see any way that CBP can be justified in retroactively charging additional duty from that far back. There is no way an importer could be aware of them not being charged the correct fee because this ruling only came down last June. If CBP has a problem with the new duty fees vs the old ones - that is their problem.
While I am not a lawyer to me it would be the same as retroactively changing (increasing) the punishment for crimes -- that is definitely not allowed.
Do you think for 1 minute that they will try the same thing and go after companies because Tariffs got raised/enacted? Oh yeah, the automakers, steel users, etc would just LOVE that...