2941.30.00

Analysis

HTS 2941.30.00 covers tetracyclines and their derivatives; salts thereof under heading 2941 (antibiotics). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in g.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 3.5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 2941.20.10 (dihydrostreptomycin and its derivatives; salts thereof), at 3.5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.5 percentage points.

For statistics it divides in two: 2941.30.00.10 for doxycycline (INN) and its salts and 2941.30.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 26% of the 1050 tariff lines in chapter 29. 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.