4011.10.10

Analysis

HTS 4011.10.10 covers of a kind used on motor cars (including station wagons and racing cars): radial under heading 4011 (new pneumatic tires, of rubber). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4%. Compared with 4011.90.10 (having a "herring-bone" or similar tread), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 4% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 40 (81st percentile of 142 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $400 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

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%. 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 ten-digit suffixes separate having a rim diameter of 33.02 cm, having a rim diameter greater than…, having a rim diameter greater than…, having a rim diameter greater than…, having a rim diameter greater than… and having a rim diameter greater than… and 1 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.