Analysis
HTS 4418.29.40 covers other: french doors under heading 4418 (builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels and assembled…).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 8%. The costliest confusion would be with 4418.99.10 (drilled or notched lumber studs) at duty-free, a difference of 4.8 points on the customs value.
The general duty rate is 4.8% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 44 (79th percentile of 257 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $480 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 4.8%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 321911 (Wood Window and Door Manufacturing), an industry of 1,080 US establishments employing 60,645 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4418.11.00 | Windows, French-windows and their frames: of tropical wood | 3.2% |
| 4418.19.00 | Windows, French-windows and their frames: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.21.40 | Of tropical wood: french doors | 4.8% |
| 4418.21.80 | Of tropical wood: other | 4.8% |
| 4418.29.80 | Other: other | 4.8% |
| 4418.30.01 | Posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418.81 to 4418.89 | 3.2% |
| 4418.40.00 | Formwork (shuttering) for concrete constructional work | 3.2% |
| 4418.50.00 | Shingles and shakes | Free |
| 4418.73.10 | For mosaic floors: solid | Free |
| 4418.73.20 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | Free |
| 4418.73.30 | Other: other | 8% |
| 4418.73.40 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | 3.2% |
| 4418.73.60 | Of unidirectional bamboo | Free |
| 4418.73.70 | Other: other | 5% |
| 4418.73.90 | Of bamboo or with at least the top layer (wear layer) of bamboo: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.74.10 | Other, for mosaic floors: solid | Free |
| 4418.74.20 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | Free |
| 4418.74.90 | Other: other | 8% |
| 4418.75.40 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | 3.2% |
| 4418.75.70 | Other, multilayer: other | 5% |
| 4418.79.01 | Assembled flooring panels: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.81.00 | Glue-laminated timber (glulam) | 3.2% |
| 4418.82.00 | Cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam) | 3.2% |
| 4418.83.00 | Engineered structural timber products: i-beams | 3.2% |
| 4418.89.00 | Engineered structural timber products: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.91.10 | Drilled or notched lumber studs | Free |
| 4418.91.91 | Of bamboo: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.92.00 | Cellular wood panels | 3.2% |
| 4418.99.10 | Drilled or notched lumber studs | Free |
| 4418.99.91 | Other: other | 3.2% |