2939

Analysis

Heading 2939 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers alkaloids, natural or reproduced by synthesis, and their salts, ethers, esters and other derivatives. It divides into 19 six-digit subheadings and 21 eight-digit tariff lines, with 24 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

The spread of 6.5 percentage points between the cheapest and dearest lines makes misclassification expensive here. The highest rate, 6.5%, applies to 2939.80.00 (alkaloids, natural or reproduced by synthesis…).

20 of its 21 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (95%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 6.5%. The median line pays duty-free.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 13th percentile of the headings in chapter 29.

The largest subheadings are 2939.19 (other, 3 lines), 2939.11 (unnamed, 1 line), 2939.20 (unnamed, 1 line) and 2939.30 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing (325412) and Medicinal and Botanical Manufacturing (325411). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.