Analysis
HTS 2841.70.10 covers molybdates: of ammonium under heading 2841 (salts of oxometallic or peroxometallic acids).
The general duty rate is 4.3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 28 (85th percentile of 274 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $430 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Rates on the nearby lines range from 1.5% to 5.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 2841.50.10 (potassium dichromate) at 1.5%, a difference of 2.8 points on the customs value.
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 4.3%. 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.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 29%, 6.7 times the general rate.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325180 (Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing), an industry of 705 US establishments employing 41,447 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
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% |
| 2841.69.00 | Manganites, manganates and permanganates: other | 5% |
| 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% |