4819.30.00

Analysis

HTS 4819.30.00 covers sacks and bags, having a base of a width of 40 cm or more under heading 4819 (cartons, boxes, cases, bags and other packing containers, of paper, paperboard, cellulose…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

For statistics it divides in two: 4819.30.00.20 for shipping sacks and multiwall bags, other than grocers' bags and 4819.30.00.40 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 322220 (Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing), an industry of 715 US establishments employing 55,911 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.