Ever find
yourself at the shopping mall debating over whether or not to buy a single
product or to go ahead and splurge on the gift set instead?
After all, the gift set comes with all of
these extra articles that you may be interested in using, but simply don’t know
yet (because you haven't tried it) right?!
When it
comes to a “set” for US Customs classification and valuation purposes, a set as
the average consumer knows it, is not necessarily the same definition as that
of US Customs.
For one, in order to be considered a set, the products all need to work “in concert” together if you will.
Specifically,
to be a “set for retail sale,” the set must
ü Consist
of at least 2 different articles classifiable in different headings,
ü Consist
of products put up together to meet a particular need or carry out a specific
activity, and
ü Be
put up in a manner suitable for sale directly to users without repacking
An example
of this would be a tube of a skin exfoliant that comes packaged with a loofah
sponge. These two articles are sold
together to carry out the specific activity of skin softening or other skin
care.
When a set
is does not meet the above standard, that is, where an item is imported
with another article and packaged together but are NOT intended to meet a
particular need or carry out a common specific activity, such as in the case of
a facial cream and a finger nail file being imported together, then each item
should be classified separately.
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