HQ 085598: Clarification of HQ 083458 of August 31, 1989

Native CBP ruling rendition. Applicability is fact-specific; modification/revocation relationships and original publisher date are retained. Publisher sentinel year0001 means unknown date, not a historical legal adoption.

                            HQ 085598

                       September 27, 1989

CO:R:C:G  085598 HP

CATEGORY:  Classification

Miss Dale Colton, Partner
India Imports of Honesdale
P.O. Box 204
Honesdale, PA 18431

RE:  Clarification of HQ 083458 of August 31, 1989

Dear Miss Colton:

     On August 31, 1989, we sent you a binding ruling concerning
classification of Asana Yoga suits under the Harmonized Tariff
Schedule of the United States Annotated (HTSUSA).  This letter
does not alter that classification, but merely clarifies certain
portions therein.

     In conversations with this office, you stated that the
shirts and pants are primarily imported and marketed together;
one top and one bottom in one polyurethane bag.  It is this
statement which we relied upon in drafting the first paragraph of
the HOLDING in HQ 083458.

     It has been brought to our attention that the statement made
in the HOLDING paragraph of our ruling indicated that, when
imported separately, those garments in excess of the matching
numbers of pants and shirts do not qualify for tariff treatment
as ensembles.  It should be understood that the term "ensembles"
applies only to garments imported together as sets put up for
retail sale.  Therefore, those "excess" garments would not
qualify for tariff treatment as ensembles, or parts thereof.


                                   Sincerely,


                                   John Durant, Director
                                   Commercial Rulings Division