3301.19.51

Analysis

HTS 3301.19.51 covers other: other under heading 3301 (essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 4.2%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 3301.24.00 (of peppermint (Mentha piperita)), at 4.2%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 4.2 percentage points.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 63% of the 41 tariff lines in chapter 33. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325998 (All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing), an industry of 1,319 US establishments employing 42,583 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.