3901.30.20

Analysis

HTS 3901.30.20 covers vinyl acetate-vinyl chloride-ethylene terpolymers, containing by weight less than 50 percent derivatives of vinyl acetate, except those polymerized from… under heading 3901 (polymers of ethylene, in primary forms).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 6.5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 3901.90.90 (other: other), at 6.5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 6.5 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 43.5% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 43.5% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 13% of the 236 tariff lines in chapter 39. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 325211 (Plastics Material and Resin Manufacturing), an industry of 1,285 US establishments employing 88,827 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.