HTS heading · chapter 59
5911
Textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in note 8 to this chapter
Analysis
Heading 5911 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in note 8 to this chapter. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 9 eight-digit tariff lines, with 16 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
The spread of 8 percentage points between the cheapest and dearest lines makes misclassification expensive here. The highest rate, 8%, applies to 5911.40.01 (filtering or straining cloth of a kind used in…).
2 of its 9 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (22%) and 7 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 8%. The median line pays 3.8%.
The largest subheadings are 5911.20 (bolting cloth, whether or not made up, 3 lines), 5911.10 (textile fabrics, felt and felt-lined woven…, 2 lines), 5911.31 (unnamed, 1 line) and 5911.32 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of 3.8% sits at the 68th percentile of the headings in chapter 59.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 5911.10.10 | Printers' rubberized blankets | 2.9% |
| 5911.10.20 | Textile fabrics, felt and felt-lined woven fabrics, coated, covered or laminated with rubber, leather or other material, of a kind used for card clothing, and similar fabrics of a kind used for other technical purposes, including narrow fabrics made of velvet impregnated with rubber, for covering weaving spindles (weaving beams): other | 3.8% |
| 5911.20.10 | Fabrics principally used for stenciling purposes in screen-process printing | 3.3% |
| 5911.20.20 | Other: of silk | Free |
| 5911.20.30 | Other: other (229) | Free |
| 5911.31.00 | Weighing less than 650 g/m2 | 3.8% |
| 5911.32.00 | Weighing 650 g/m2 or more | 3.8% |
| 5911.40.01 | Filtering or straining cloth of a kind used in oil presses or the like, including that of human hair | 8% |
| 5911.90.00 | Textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in note 8 to this chapter: other | 3.8% |