4810.99.30

Analysis

HTS 4810.99.30 covers cards, not punched, for punch card machines, whether or not in strips under heading 4810 (paper and paperboard, coated on one or both sides with kaolin (China clay) or other…).

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 100% of the 225 tariff lines in chapter 48 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.

The other lines in the same group are 4810.99.10 (in strips or rolls of a width exceeding 15 cm or in…, duty-free) and 4810.99.65 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 322299 (All Other Converted Paper Product Manufacturing), an industry of 331 US establishments employing 12,827 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

All 2 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.