2901.29.10

Analysis

HTS 2901.29.10 covers derived in whole or in part from petroleum, shale oil or natural gas under heading 2901 (acyclic hydrocarbons). 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.

For statistics it divides in two: 2901.29.10.10 for linear α-olefins (C6-C30), unmixed and 2901.29.10.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 26% of the 1050 tariff lines in chapter 29 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.