5212.25.60

Analysis

HTS 5212.25.60 covers printed: other under heading 5212 (other woven fabrics of cotton). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 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 16.5 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 7% of the 222 tariff lines in chapter 52. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

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