HTS tariff line · chapter 30
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
Analysis
HTS 3006.70.00 covers 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… under heading 3006 (pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 6.4%. Compared with 3006.93.10 (packaged with medicinal preparations), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 5 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 5% of the customs value, which is among the highest the rates in chapter 30 (97th percentile of 58 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $500 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 5%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 5.0 times the general rate.
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 |
| 3006.50.00 | First-aid boxes and kits | Free |
| 3006.60.00 | Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides | Free |
| 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% |