5101.11.60

Analysis

HTS 5101.11.60 covers shorn wool: other under heading 5101 (wool, not carded or combed). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in cy kg and kilograms.

The general rate is 18.7¢/clean kg, a specific or compound duty rather than a simple percentage, so the effective burden depends on the unit value of the goods: cheap goods pay proportionally more than expensive ones. Importers usually convert it to an ad valorem equivalent to compare it with other lines.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and 10 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 18.7¢/clean kg. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

For statistics it divides in two: 5101.11.60.30 for not finer than 58s and 5101.11.60.60 for finer than 58s. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The other lines in the same group are 5101.11.10 (wool for special uses, duty-free), 5101.11.20 (unimproved wool; other wool, not finer than 40s, duty-free), 5101.11.40 (other: other wool, finer than 40s but not finer than 44s, duty-free) and 5101.11.50 (other: other wool, finer than 44s, duty-free).