Analysis
HTS 2841.69.00 covers manganites, manganates and permanganates: other under heading 2841 (salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
The general duty rate is 5% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 28 (88th percentile of 274 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $500 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Within this group the rate runs from 1.5% to 5.5%. Compared with 2841.50.10 (potassium dichromate), which pays 1.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.5 percentage points.
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 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.
For statistics it divides in two: 2841.69.00.10 for sodium permanganate and 2841.69.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2841.30.00 | Salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids: sodium dichromate | 2.4% |
| 2841.50.10 | Potassium dichromate | 1.5% |
| 2841.50.91 | Other chromates and dichromates; peroxochromates: other | 3.1% |
| 2841.61.00 | Potassium permanganate | 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% |