4416.00.90

Analysis

HTS 4416.00.90 covers casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood, including staves: other under heading 4416 (casks, barrels, vats, tubs and other coopers' products and parts thereof, of wood…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to duty-free, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 4416.00.60 (staves and hoops; tight barrelheads of softwood), at duty-free: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.2 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 3.2% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 44 (67th percentile of 257 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $320 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

For statistics it divides in two: 4416.00.90.20 for new and 4416.00.90.40 for used. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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 3.2%. 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.