Analysis
HTS 4418.99.91 covers other: other under heading 4418 (builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels and assembled…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and m3.
This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.08 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.
Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 8%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 4418.74.90 (other: other), at 8%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 4.8 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.
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.
The ten-digit suffixes separate wood flooring, arches, laminated, roof trusses, other fabricated structural wood members and prefabricated partitions and panels for…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Statistical suffixes
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% |
| 4418.29.40 | Other: french doors | 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 |
Chapter 99 provisions in the footnotes
- 9903.90.08 measures on products of Russia
Articles the product of the Russian Federation, as provided for in U.S. note 30(a) to this subchapter and as provided for in the subheadings enumerated in U.S. note 30(b) to this subchapter