4601.92.20

Analysis

HTS 4601.92.20 covers of bamboo: other under heading 4601 (plaits and similar products of plaiting materials, whether or not assembled into strips…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 8%. The costliest confusion would be with 4601.94.40 (other: other) at duty-free, a difference of 6.6 points on the customs value.

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 6.6%. 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 general duty rate is 6.6% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 46 (77th percentile of 48 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $660 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 45%, 6.8 times the general rate.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 321999 (All Other Miscellaneous Wood Product Manufacturing), an industry of 2,327 US establishments employing 31,381 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.