2620.99.75

Analysis

HTS 2620.99.75 covers 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… 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 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms and V2O5 kg.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 97% of the 39 tariff lines in chapter 26, 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.

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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.

The ten-digit suffixes separate vanadium bearing materials, other materials containing silver, other materials containing gold and other materials that do not contain…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.