3801.90.00

Analysis

HTS 3801.90.00 covers artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite or other carbon in the form of pastes, blocks, plates or other… under heading 3801 (artificial graphite; colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite; preparations based on graphite…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.9%. Compared with 3801.20.00 (colloidal or semi-colloidal graphite), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.9 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 4.9%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 45%, 9.2 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 3801.90.00.10 for active anode material containing silicon and 3801.90.00.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The general duty rate is 4.9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 38 (51st percentile of 179 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $490 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.