5212.12.60

Analysis

HTS 5212.12.60 covers bleached: other under heading 5212 (other woven fabrics of cotton). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 9 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 16.5%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 5212.24.10 (containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair), at 16.5%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 8.7 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Israel FTA, and 9 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 7.8%. 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.

The general duty rate is 7.8% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 52 (30th percentile of 222 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $780 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 5.1 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate mixed mainly or solely with wool or…, poplin or broadcloth, sheeting, printcloth, cheesecloth; lawns, voiles or batistes and sateens and 1 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.