0505.90.20

Analysis

HTS 0505.90.20 covers feather meal and waste 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 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

The general duty rate is 2.3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 05 (88th percentile of 20 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $230 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to duty-free. The costliest confusion would be with 0505.90.60 (other: other) at duty-free, a difference of 2.3 points on the customs value.

For statistics it divides in two: 0505.90.20.20 for feather meal and 0505.90.20.40 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.3%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.