3904.30.20

Analysis

HTS 3904.30.20 covers vinyl acetate-vinyl chloride-ethylene terpolymers, containing by weight less than 50 percent derivatives of vinyl acetate, except those polymerized from… under heading 3904 (polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 6.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 3904.90.50 (other: other) at 6.5%, a difference of 6.5 points on the customs value.

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.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 13% of the 236 tariff lines in chapter 39 that are also free. 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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.