4823.69.00

Analysis

HTS 4823.69.00 covers trays, dishes, plates, cups and the like, of paper or paperboard: other under heading 4823 (other paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding and webs of cellulose fibers, cut to size or…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

For statistics it divides in two: 4823.69.00.20 for cups and round nested food containers and 4823.69.00.40 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 322219 (Other Paperboard Container Manufacturing), an industry of 279 US establishments employing 20,593 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.