3304.91.00

Analysis

HTS 3304.91.00 covers powders, whether or not compressed under heading 3304 (beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 75% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 75% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 3304.91.00.10 for rouges and 3304.91.00.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325620 (Toilet Preparation Manufacturing), an industry of 1,096 US establishments employing 48,968 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.