Analysis
HTS 3926.90.65 covers clothespins: spring type under heading 3926 (other articles of plastics and articles of other materials of headings 3901 to 3914). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in gross.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 6.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 3926.90.96 (casing for bicycle derailleur cables; and casing for cable or inner…) at duty-free, a difference of 4.2 points on the customs value.
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 4.2%. 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 general duty rate is 4.2% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 39 (36th percentile of 236 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $420 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3926.90.10 | Other: buckets and pails | 3.4% |
| 3926.90.16 | Other: pacifiers | 3.1% |
| 3926.90.21 | Ice bags; douche bags, enema bags, hot water bottles, and fittings therefor; invalid and similar nursing cushions; dress shields; pessaries; prophylactics; bulbs for syringes; syringes (other than hypodermic syringes) and fittings therefor, not in part of glass or metal | 4.2% |
| 3926.90.25 | Handles and knobs, not elsewhere specified or included, of plastics | 6.5% |
| 3926.90.30 | Parts for yachts or pleasure boats of heading 8903; parts of canoes, racing shells, pneumatic craft and pleasure boats which are not of a type designed to be principally used with motors or sails | 4.2% |
| 3926.90.33 | Beads, bugles and spangles, not strung (except temporarily) and not set; articles thereof, not elsewhere specified or included: handbags | 6.5% |
| 3926.90.35 | Beads, bugles and spangles, not strung (except temporarily) and not set; articles thereof, not elsewhere specified or included: other | 6.5% |
| 3926.90.40 | Imitation gemstones | 2.8% |
| 3926.90.45 | Gaskets, washers and other seals | 3.5% |
| 3926.90.48 | Other: photo albums | 3.4% |
| 3926.90.50 | Frames or mounts for photographic slides | 3.8% |
| 3926.90.55 | Containing textile fibers: v-belts | 5.1% |
| 3926.90.56 | With textile components in which vegetable fibers predominate by weight over any other textile fiber | 5.1% |
| 3926.90.57 | With textile components in which man-made fibers predominate by weight over any other textile fiber | 6.5% |
| 3926.90.59 | Other: other | 2.4% |
| 3926.90.60 | Belting and belts, for machinery: other | 4.2% |
| 3926.90.70 | Clothespins: other | 5.3% |
| 3926.90.75 | Pneumatic mattresses and other inflatable articles, not elsewhere specified or included | 4.2% |
| 3926.90.77 | Waterbed mattresses and liners, and parts of the foregoing | 2.4% |
| 3926.90.83 | Empty cartridges and cassettes for typewriter and machine ribbons | 5.3% |
| 3926.90.85 | Fasteners, in clips suitable for use in a mechanical attaching device | 6.5% |
| 3926.90.87 | Flexible plastic document binders with tabs, rolled or flat | 5.3% |
| 3926.90.94 | Cards, not punched, suitable for use as, or in making, jacquard cards; Jacquard cards and jacquard heads for power-driven weaving machines, and parts thereof; and Transparent sheeting of plastics containing 30 percent or more by weight of lead | Free |
| 3926.90.96 | Casing for bicycle derailleur cables; and casing for cable or inner wire for caliper and cantilever brakes, whether or not cut to length | Free |
| 3926.90.99 | Other: other | 5.3% |