Analysis
HTS 0602.90.20 covers herbaceous perennials: orchid plants under heading 0602 (other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn).
Within this group the rate runs from 1.4% to 4.8%. Compared with 0602.90.90 (other: other), which pays 4.8%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.8 percentage points.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 26% of the 23 tariff lines in chapter 06, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 111421 (Nursery and Tree Production). That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0602.90.30 | With soil attached to roots | 1.4% |
| 0602.90.40 | Other: other | 3.5% |
| 0602.90.50 | Other: mushroom spawn | 1.4¢/kg |
| 0602.90.60 | With soil attached to roots | 1.9% |
| 0602.90.90 | Other: other | 4.8% |