Analysis
HTS 2841.50.10 covers potassium dichromate under heading 2841 (salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids).
Neighbouring lines carry rates from 2.4% to 5.5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 2841.90.10 (other: vanadates), at 5.5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 4 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 1.5% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 28 (37th percentile of 274 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $150 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
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 1.5%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325180 (Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing), an industry of 705 US establishments employing 41,447 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2841.30.00 | Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids: sodium dichromate | 2.4% |
| 2841.50.91 | Other chromates and dichromates; peroxochromates: other | 3.1% |
| 2841.61.00 | Potassium permanganate | 5% |
| 2841.69.00 | Manganites, manganates and permanganates: other | 5% |
| 2841.70.10 | Molybdates: of ammonium | 4.3% |
| 2841.70.50 | Molybdates: other | 3.7% |
| 2841.80.00 | Tungstates (wolframates) | 5.5% |
| 2841.90.10 | Other: vanadates | 5.5% |
| 2841.90.20 | Ammonium perrhenate | 3.1% |
| 2841.90.30 | Potassium stannate | 3.1% |
| 2841.90.40 | Other: aluminates | 3.1% |
| 2841.90.45 | Chromates of zinc or of lead | 3.7% |
| 2841.90.50 | Other: other | 3.7% |