Analysis
HTS 4409.22.50 covers wood moldings: other under heading 4409 (wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in metres.
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.9%. Compared with 4409.22.65 (sanded, grooved or otherwise advanced in condition), which pays 4.9%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.9 percentage points.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 257 tariff lines in chapter 44, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 321918 (Other Millwork (including Flooring)), an industry of 1,445 US establishments employing 32,379 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4409.22.05 | Wood continuously shaped along any of its ends, whether or not also continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces, all the foregoing whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed | 3.2% |
| 4409.22.10 | Other: wood siding | Free |
| 4409.22.25 | Other: wood flooring | Free |
| 4409.22.40 | Standard wood moldings | Free |
| 4409.22.60 | Wood dowel rods: plain | Free |
| 4409.22.65 | Sanded, grooved or otherwise advanced in condition | 4.9% |
| 4409.22.90 | Other: other | Free |