Analysis
HTS 5211.51.00 covers printed: plain weave under heading 5211 (woven fabrics of cotton, containing less than 85 percent by weight of cotton, mixed…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.
Rates on the nearby lines range from 7.7% to 8.4%. The costliest confusion would be with 5211.20.29 (bleached: other fabrics) at 8.4%, a difference of 8.4 points on the customs value.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 7% of the 222 tariff lines in chapter 52 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25.9% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25.9% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 313210 (Broadwoven Fabric Mills), an industry of 234 US establishments employing 13,276 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 5211.11.00 | Unbleached: plain weave | 7.7% |
| 5211.12.00 | 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill | 7.7% |
| 5211.19.00 | Unbleached: other fabrics | 7.7% |
| 5211.20.21 | Bleached: plain weave | 8.4% |
| 5211.20.22 | 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill | 8.4% |
| 5211.20.29 | Bleached: other fabrics | 8.4% |
| 5211.31.00 | Dyed: plain weave | 8.1% |
| 5211.32.00 | 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill | 8.1% |
| 5211.39.00 | Dyed: other fabrics | 8.1% |
| 5211.41.00 | Of yarns of different colors: plain weave | 8.1% |
| 5211.42.00 | Of yarns of different colors: denim | 8.1% |
| 5211.43.00 | Of yarns of different colors: other fabrics of 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill | 8.1% |
| 5211.49.00 | Of yarns of different colors: other fabrics | 8.1% |
| 5211.52.00 | 3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill | 8.1% |
| 5211.59.00 | Printed: other fabrics | 8.1% |