2101.20.20

Analysis

HTS 2101.20.20 covers extracts, essences and concentrates under heading 2101 (extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from 8.5% to 10%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 2101.20.54 (described in additional U.S. note 8 to chapter 17 and entered…), at 10%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 10 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 2101.20.20.10 for instant tea and 2101.20.20.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 16% of the 51 tariff lines in chapter 21. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 311920 (Coffee and Tea Manufacturing), an industry of 1,155 US establishments employing 23,998 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.