3005.10.50

Analysis

HTS 3005.10.50 covers adhesive dressings and other articles having an adhesive layer: other under heading 3005 (wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters…).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 93% of the 58 tariff lines in chapter 30, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

The other lines in the same group are 3005.10.10 (coated or impregnated with pharmaceutical substances, duty-free), 3005.90.10 (coated or impregnated with pharmaceutical substances, duty-free) and 3005.90.50 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339113 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing), an industry of 1,804 US establishments employing 93,937 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.