5212.15.60

Analysis

HTS 5212.15.60 covers printed: 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.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 16.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 5212.24.10 (containing 36 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair) at 16.5%, a difference of 8.7 points on the customs value.

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.