5909.00.20

Analysis

HTS 5909.00.20 covers textile hosepiping and similar textile tubing, with or without lining, armor or accessories of other materials: other under heading 5909 (textile hosepiping and similar textile tubing, with or without lining, armor or…).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to duty-free, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 5909.00.10 (of vegetable fibers), at duty-free: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.3 percentage points.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 88.5%, 26.8 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 59 (60th percentile of 59 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.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Automotive Products Trade Act, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 11 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.