National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD) May 2026 Webinars

The National Commodity Specialist Division NCSD), Office of Trade, is excited to present the next round of 30+ commodity-specific, educational webinars to support our internal and external stakeholders. This year, we intend to focus our webinars on the FUTURE OF TRADE: INNOVATION AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY - dedicated to rapidly changing technology, in addition to providing general classification guidance to facilitate legitimate trade.   
Beginning May through September 2026, the webinars will commence at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time for approximately one hour, except for May 20, May 21, May 28, September 24, and September 28, which are scheduled at 11:00 a.m. Eastern.  
We are now registering attendees for the webinars scheduled to take place during May and will proceed with monthly registrations for the remaining webinars through September. We will be using the WebEx Platform, which will provide a seamless experience for you and ensure external posting of the webinars to https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/webinars; thus, each webinar will have its own link to sign in.  
The upcoming webinar links are available at https://www.cbp.gov/trade/stakeholder-engagement/webinars. A full 2026 webinar schedule will be available soon.  We look forward to your participation in an exciting and successful webinar series! 
The May schedule is as follows: 
 19 May 
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET 
Classification in Chapter 49, Printed Matter 
20 May 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET 
Recycling Aluminum: Sorting Through the Scrap 
21 May 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET 
Trends in Classifying Coated Fabrics 2 
26 May 
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET 
Robot Wars: HTSUS Tariff Classification of Robots 
 27 May 
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET 
Gauging Success-Apparatus of Headings: 9026 and 9029 
28 May 
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET 
Other Made-Up Textiles of Subheadings 6307.90 Part II 
29 May 
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET 
Classification of Certain Electrothermic Appliance Combos