Analysis
HTS 2620.40.00 covers containing mainly aluminum under heading 2620 (slag, ash and residues (other than from the manufacture of iron or steel), containing…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms and V2O5 kg.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5%. The costliest confusion would be with 2620.60.10 (of a kind used only for the extraction of arsenic or the manufacture…) at 5%, a difference of 5 points on the customs value.
For statistics it divides in two: 2620.40.00.30 for vanadium bearing materials and 2620.40.00.60 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 97% of the 39 tariff lines in chapter 26 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 331410 (Nonferrous Metal (except Aluminum) Smelting and Refining), an industry of 112 US establishments employing 8,755 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2620.11.00 | Containing mainly zinc: hard zinc spelter | Free |
| 2620.19.30 | Zinc dross and zinc skimmings | Free |
| 2620.19.60 | Other: other | 0.7¢/kg on copper content + 0.7¢/kg on lead content |
| 2620.21.00 | Leaded gasoline sludges and leaded anti-knock compound sludges | Free |
| 2620.29.00 | Containing mainly lead: other | Free |
| 2620.30.00 | Containing mainly copper | Free |
| 2620.60.10 | Of a kind used only for the extraction of arsenic or the manufacture of its chemical compounds | 5% |
| 2620.60.90 | Containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixtures, of a kind used for the extraction of arsenic or those metalsor for the manufacture of their chemical compounds: other | Free |
| 2620.91.00 | Containing antimony, beryllium, cadmium, chromium or their mixtures | Free |
| 2620.99.10 | Containing mainly vanadium | Free |
| 2620.99.20 | Containing mainly tungsten | 17.6¢/kg on tungsten content + 3.8% |
| 2620.99.30 | Materials not provided for elsewhere in this heading containing by weight over 10 percent nickel | Free |
| 2620.99.50 | Slag containing by weight over 40 percent titanium, and which if containing over 2 percent by weight of copper, lead, or zinc is not to be treated for the recovery thereof | Free |
| 2620.99.75 | Other: other materials which are residues not advanced in value or condition by any means, and which if containing over 2 percent by weight of copper, lead or zinc are not to be treated for the recovery thereof | Free |
| 2620.99.85 | Other: other | Free |