4703.21.00

Analysis

HTS 4703.21.00 covers semibleached or bleached: coniferous under heading 4703 (chemical woodpulp, soda or sulfate, other than dissolving grades). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in t adw.

For statistics it divides in two: 4703.21.00.20 for semibleached and 4703.21.00.40 for bleached. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 100% of the 21 tariff lines in chapter 47. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

The other lines in the same group are 4703.11.00 (unbleached: coniferous, duty-free), 4703.19.00 (unbleached: nonconiferous, duty-free) and 4703.29.00 (semibleached or bleached: nonconiferous, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 322110 (Pulp Mills), an industry of 35 US establishments employing 9,609 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.

All 3 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.