5514.43.00

Analysis

HTS 5514.43.00 covers printed: other woven fabrics of polyester staple fibers under heading 5514 (woven fabrics of synthetic staple fibers, containing less than 85 percent by weight of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 14.9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 5514.42.00 (3-thread or 4-thread twill, including cross twill, of polyester…), at 14.9%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 14.9 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 81% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 81% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 7% of the 133 tariff lines in chapter 55. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 313210 (Broadwoven Fabric Mills), an industry of 234 US establishments employing 13,276 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.