Duty Ledger Digest · Kitchen & Home imports
Per-category, reconciliation-first: the three HTS buckets this category lives in, what actually moved between June 16 and July 15, 2026, and the exact questions to take to your broker.
Three colors, one rule. Verified quoted from the linked government text or a dated live lookup — hand it to an auditor. Labeled estimate arithmetic on stated inputs — check the inputs, not our math. Ask your broker a genuine classification call — we flag it, we never guess it. One invented rate would be fatal to this product, so there are none.
Where a kitchen & home importer's duty bill usually lives. Headings are context, not classification — your filed entries are the source of truth (and CBP's January 2026 AI-classification ruling, HQ H350722, is exactly why we defer full codes to your broker or your own 7501s).
Move 1 · Certain — the 10% surcharge sunsets July 24
The temporary import surcharge that has sat on top of nearly every entry since late February ends next Friday, by operation of law. The government's own words:
"Accordingly, I impose, for a period of 150 days, a temporary import surcharge of 10 percent ad valorem, as described below, on articles imported into the United States, effective February 24, 2026."
Priced against one illustrative stainless-cookware entry (replace the entered value with yours):
Ask your broker: "On my entries filed since Feb 24, what did we actually pay under heading 9903.03.01 — and are my July entries coded so the surcharge drops off for anything entered July 24 or later?"
Move 2 · In force — de minimis is suspended for direct parcels
Two final rules published June 24 suspend the de minimis exemption indefinitely — one for mail shipments (with a new postal informal-entry process), one for merchandise arriving by every other mode. If any of your volume ships direct to U.S. buyers as low-value parcels, its entry math changed.
Federal Register docs 2026-12669 and 2026-12670 (both Rules, pub. 24 Jun 2026) — in the Duty Ledger archive. We quote no parcel-level dollar figures here: what a parcel now owes depends on your channel and classification. Ask your broker
Ask your broker (or 3PL): "Which of my shipments were clearing under de minimis, and what do those same parcels pay as informal entries now?"
Move 3 · Proposed, not in force — the Section 301 forced-labor wave
On June 5, USTR published determinations in 60 investigations and proposed new tariffs:
"…the Trade Representative proposes 10% as the rate of additional duties. For all other economies, the Trade Representative proposes 12.5% as the rate of additional duties."
Comments closed July 6; hearings ran the week of July 7. No rate is in force from this action yet — any duties land only via a further Federal Register notice, which had not been published as of July 16. The collector checks daily; the day it publishes, it's in the archive and in this digest.
Ask your broker: "If a final notice issues, which of my origin countries are on it, at which of the two rates — and does it stack on my existing duties?"
2026-13663 (7 Jul) — Commerce opens comments on a Section 232 national-security investigation of anthracite coal. Early-stage; steel-adjacent inputs worth a glance.2026-13975 (10 Jul) — Steel racks from China: court decision not in harmony with the AD determination. If you import steel racks/parts, cash-deposit rates can move.2026-14020 (13 Jul) — Common alloy aluminum sheet (Bahrain): preliminary AD review results. Input-side signal for aluminum housewares; captured by the collector the day it published.Every document above is a row in the Duty Ledger archive — 4,288 federal tariff documents on record, recorded daily at 15:00 UTC since 12 Jul 2026 (documents older than that were backfilled on 12 Jul 2026 from the Federal Register's public API; documents from 13 Jul onward were captured the day they published, and the archive stores exactly when each was first seen). If any number here differs from your broker invoice, reply and say so — the reconciliation, and the correction if we owe one, ships in the next issue and on the public changelog.