In Ruling NY N304090, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discussed the Classification of Knit Socks with Sensors from France. The pair of knit socks are part of the “PUP (Patient is Up) system, which is designed to alert the caregivers in a hospital, clinic, nursing home, or other facility that a patient is attempting to exit the bed or stand. The sensors measure pressure resistance, gravitational/directional alignment to the ground and motion. The socks include pressure sensors incorporated into the toe, heel and arch of a sock using pressure sensitive fibers and also a Bluetooth transmitter affixed to the exterior of the sock in the ankle region. The caregiver will assist the patient in putting on the sock, add the patient’s data into a PUP tablet (not being imported) and when the patient moves, the tablet and other devices (not being imported) will be alerted.

CBP determined that the applicable subheading for these socks is 6115.95.9000, HTSUS, which provides for “Pantyhose, tights, stockings, socks and other hosiery, including graduated compression hosiery…and footwear without applied soles, knitted or crocheted: Other: Of cotton: Other.” The rate of duty will be 13.5% ad valorem.

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Frances P. Hadfield is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group in the firm’s New York office. Her practice focuses on forced labor and withhold release orders (WRO), import regulatory compliance, and customs litigation. She regularly advises corporations on matters involving…

Frances P. Hadfield is a counsel in Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group in the firm’s New York office. Her practice focuses on forced labor and withhold release orders (WRO), import regulatory compliance, and customs litigation. She regularly advises corporations on matters involving customs compliance, audits, customs enforcement, as well as import penalties.

Frances represents clients before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as in proceedings at the administrative level. She advises corporations on both substantive federal and state regulatory issues that involve U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife in matters pertaining to product admissibility, audits, classification, import restrictions, investigations, marking, licenses, origin, penalties, and tariff preference programs.

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