HTS heading · chapter 32
3213
Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings
Analysis
Heading 3213 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 2 eight-digit tariff lines, with 2 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
None of its 2 lines is duty-free at the general rate. Rates run from 3.4% to 3.4% with a median of 3.4%, so the line you choose sets the duty.
1 of the lines carry specific or compound rates (per kilogram, per dozen and so on) rather than a percentage, so their burden depends on the unit value of the goods.
The largest subheadings are 3213.10 (unnamed, 1 line) and 3213.90 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of 3.4% sits at the 38th percentile of the headings in chapter 32.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing (339940). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3213.10.00 | Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings: colors in sets | 6.5% on the entire set |
| 3213.90.00 | Artists', students' or signboard painters' colors, modifying tints, amusement colors and the like, in tablets, tubes, jars, bottles, pans or in similar forms or packings: other | 3.4% |