5603.12.00

Analysis

HTS 5603.12.00 covers weighing more than 25 g/m2 but not more than 70 g/m2 under heading 5603 (nonwovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 74% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 74% duty.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 35% of the 51 tariff lines in chapter 56, 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 313230 (Nonwoven Fabric Mills), an industry of 227 US establishments employing 16,687 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.

The ten-digit suffixes separate impregnated, coated or covered with… and nonwoven articles, ready for use and…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.