Analysis
HTS 4820.30.00 covers binders (other than book covers), folders and file covers under heading 4820 (registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
For statistics it divides in two: 4820.30.00.20 for looseleaf binders and 4820.30.00.40 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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 100% of the 225 tariff lines in chapter 48, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 323111 (Commercial Printing (except Screen and Books)), an industry of 15,140 US establishments employing 280,276 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4820.10.20 | Diaries, notebooks and address books, bound; memorandum pads, letter pads and similar articles | Free |
| 4820.10.40 | Registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles: other | Free |
| 4820.20.00 | Registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles, exercise books, blotting pads, binders (looseleaf or other), folders, file covers, manifold business forms, interleaved carbon sets and other articles of stationery, of paper or paperboard; albums for samples or for collections and book covers (including cover boards and book jackets) of paper or paperboard: exercise books | Free |
| 4820.40.00 | Manifold business forms and interleaved carbon sets | Free |
| 4820.50.00 | Albums for samples or for collections | Free |
| 4820.90.00 | Registers, account books, notebooks, order books, receipt books, letter pads, memorandum pads, diaries and similar articles, exercise books, blotting pads, binders (looseleaf or other), folders, file covers, manifold business forms, interleaved carbon sets and other articles of stationery, of paper or paperboard; albums for samples or for collections and book covers (including cover boards and book jackets) of paper or paperboard: other | Free |