Finanse publiczne · 26/04/1995

Pharmaceutical Tables 1 and 3 of the HTSUS

By act of Congress, the U.S. Customs Service implemented the Pharmaceutical Agreement of the General Agreements on Tariff and Trade (GATT) on January 1, 1995. A critical portion of the implementing legislation includes listings of the pharmaceuticals and pharmaceuticals intermediates covered by the treaty. These listings, Tables 1 and 3 of the Pharmaceutical Appendix of the Tariff Schedule, consist of an alphabetical listing of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical intermediates with corresponding CAS numbers. U.S. Customs and other agencies have been receiving comments from the public indicating that because of the large number of products listed in the tables and the fact that the products may be properly identified by several different names, it is difficult to apply the Pharmaceutical Appendix in a significant number of instances. In general, the public has indicated that products covered by the treaty are more easily identified by their CAS numbers and that use of the Tariff Schedule would be greatly facilitated if a listing of the products in Tables 1 and 3 is made available in CAS number numerical order. Accordingly, listed below are the products found in Table 1 and Table 3 of