Analysis
HTS 3006.50.00 covers first-aid boxes and kits under heading 3006 (pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 6.4%. The costliest confusion would be with 3006.93.50 (containing ingredients having nutritional value, in which starch or…) at 6.4%, a difference of 6.4 points on the customs value.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 93% of the 58 tariff lines in chapter 30 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339113 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing), an industry of 1,804 US establishments employing 93,937 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3006.10.01 | Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental hemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable | Free |
| 3006.30.10 | Containing antigens or antisera | Free |
| 3006.30.50 | Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient: other | Free |
| 3006.40.00 | Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements | Free |
| 3006.60.00 | Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides | Free |
| 3006.70.00 | Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments | 5% |
| 3006.91.00 | Appliances identifiable for ostomy use | 4.2% |
| 3006.92.00 | Waste pharmaceuticals | Free |
| 3006.93.10 | Packaged with medicinal preparations | Free |
| 3006.93.20 | Containing over 10 percent by dry weight of sugar | 40¢/kg + 10.4% |
| 3006.93.50 | Containing ingredients having nutritional value, in which starch or other foodstuff predominates by weight | 6.4% |
| 3006.93.60 | In liquid form for oral intake | 0.2¢/liter |
| 3006.93.80 | Placebos and clinical trial kits containing other chemicals other than medicaments | 5% |