2936.90.01

Analysis

HTS 2936.90.01 covers provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and… under heading 2936 (provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

For statistics it divides in two: 2936.90.01.10 for provitamins and 2936.90.01.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 26% of the 1050 tariff lines in chapter 29, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325411 (Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing), an industry of 761 US establishments employing 30,382 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.