3405.30.00

Analysis

HTS 3405.30.00 covers polishes and similar preparations for coachwork, other than metal polishes under heading 3405 (polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring…).

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 41% of the 41 tariff lines in chapter 34, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 3405.10.00 (polishes, creams and similar preparations for footwear or…, duty-free), 3405.20.00 (polishes, creams and similar preparations for the…, duty-free), 3405.40.00 (scouring pastes and powders and other scouring preparations, duty-free) and 3405.90.00 (polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors…, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325612 (Polish and Other Sanitation Good Manufacturing), an industry of 455 US establishments employing 17,230 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.