5705.00.20

Analysis

HTS 5705.00.20 covers other carpets and other textile floor coverings, whether or not made up: other under heading 5705 (other carpets and other textile floor coverings, whether or not made up). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to duty-free. Compared with 5705.00.10 (other carpets and other textile floor coverings, whether or not made…), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3.3 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Automotive Products Trade Act, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.3%. 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 column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 10.6 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 3.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 57 (49th percentile of 50 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $330 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.