Analysis
HTS 3211.00.00 covers prepared driers under heading 3211 (prepared driers).
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.7%. 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 general duty rate is 3.7% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 32 (42nd percentile of 106 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $370 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
It is the only US line under subheading 3211.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 3211.00 points straight here.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 6.8 times the general rate.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325510 (Paint and Coating Manufacturing), an industry of 1,125 US establishments employing 46,345 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.