2842.90.90

Analysis

HTS 2842.90.90 covers other: other under heading 2842 (other salts of inorganic acids or peroxoacids (including aluminosilicates whether or not…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.08 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.3%. 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.

For statistics it divides in two: 2842.90.90.10 for selenides and tellurides and 2842.90.90.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The general duty rate is 3.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 28 (55th percentile of 274 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $330 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 7.6 times the general rate.