Analysis
HTS 4401.49.00 covers sawdust and wood waste and scrap, not agglomerated: other under heading 4401 (fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
For statistics it divides in two: 4401.49.00.20 for shavings and 4401.49.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 257 tariff lines in chapter 44 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 321999 (All Other Miscellaneous Wood Product Manufacturing), an industry of 2,327 US establishments employing 31,381 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
All 9 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4401.11.00 | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms: coniferous | Free |
| 4401.12.00 | Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms: nonconiferous | Free |
| 4401.21.00 | Wood in chips or particles: coniferous | Free |
| 4401.22.00 | Wood in chips or particles: nonconiferous | Free |
| 4401.31.00 | Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: wood pellets | Free |
| 4401.32.00 | Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms: wood briquettes | Free |
| 4401.39.20 | Artificial fire logs composed of wax and sawdust, with or without added materials | Free |
| 4401.39.42 | Other: other | Free |
| 4401.41.00 | Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, not agglomerated: sawdust | Free |