3005

Analysis

Heading 3005 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical…. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 4 eight-digit tariff lines, with 5 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 4 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 3005.10 (adhesive dressings and other articles having an…, 2 lines) and 3005.90 (other, 2 lines).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 47th percentile of the headings in chapter 30.