4009.42.00

Analysis

HTS 4009.42.00 covers reinforced or otherwise combined with other materials: with fittings under heading 4009 (tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanized rubber other than hard rubber, with or without…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.08 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.

For statistics it divides in two: 4009.42.00.20 for brake hoses for the vehicles of subheadings 8701.21… and 4009.42.00.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Automotive Products Trade Act, the Bahrain FTA, the civil aircraft agreement, and 14 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.5%. 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 2.5% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 40 (47th percentile of 142 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $250 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 10.0 times the general rate.