5801.90.20

Analysis

HTS 5801.90.20 covers of other textile materials: other under heading 5801 (woven pile fabrics and chenille fabrics, other than fabrics of heading 5802 or 5806). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in square metres and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 20.2%. Compared with 5801.22.90 (cut corduroy: other (224)), which pays 20.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 17.5 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 2.7% of the customs value, which is at the low end of the rates in chapter 58 (25th percentile of 67 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $270 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 70%, 25.9 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 5801.90.20.10 for containing 85 percent or more by weight of silk or silk… and 5801.90.20.90 for other (810). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and 10 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.7%. 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.