3005.90.50

Analysis

HTS 3005.90.50 covers other: other under heading 3005 (wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

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.

For statistics it divides in two: 3005.90.50.10 for laparotomy sponges and 3005.90.50.90 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 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), 3005.10.50 (adhesive dressings and other articles having an adhesive…, duty-free) and 3005.90.10 (coated or impregnated with pharmaceutical substances, duty-free).