0505.10.00

Analysis

HTS 0505.10.00 covers feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down under heading 0505 (skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.3%. The costliest confusion would be with 0505.90.20 (feather meal and waste) at 2.3%, a difference of 2.3 points on the customs value.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 75% of the 20 tariff lines in chapter 05 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

The other lines in the same group are 0505.90.20 (feather meal and waste, 2.3%) and 0505.90.60 (other: other, duty-free).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing), an industry of 3,012 US establishments employing 40,510 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.