5311.00.30

Analysis

HTS 5311.00.30 covers containing cotton and man-made fibers under heading 5311 (woven fabrics of other vegetable textile fibers; woven fabrics of paper yarn). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 9 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 14.5%. Compared with 5311.00.20 (containing more than 17 percent by weight of wool or fine animal hair…), which pays 14.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 14.5 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 78% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 78% duty.

The ten-digit suffixes separate poplin or broadcloth, sheeting, printcloth, poplin or broadcloth, sheeting and printcloth. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 77% of the 30 tariff lines in chapter 53, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.