3301.25.00

Analysis

HTS 3301.25.00 covers essential oils other than those of citrus fruit: of other mints 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.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 4.2%. The costliest confusion would be with 3301.24.00 (of peppermint (Mentha piperita)) at 4.2%, a difference of 4.2 points on the customs value.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 63% of the 41 tariff lines in chapter 33 that are also free. 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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.