4403.95.01

Analysis

HTS 4403.95.01 covers of birch (Betula spp.), of which the smallest cross-sectional dimension is 15 cm or more under heading 4403 (wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sap- wood, or roughly squared). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in m3.

For statistics it divides in two: 4403.95.01.27 for poles, piles and posts and 4403.95.01.30 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 113310 (Logging), an industry of 7,261 US establishments employing 42,916 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

All 18 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.