Analysis
HTS 5911.10.10 covers printers' rubberized blankets under heading 5911 (textile products and articles, for technical uses, specified in note 8 to this chapter).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 8%. Compared with 5911.40.01 (filtering or straining cloth of a kind used in oil presses or the…), which pays 8%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 5.1 percentage points.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 13.8 times the general rate.
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 2.9%. 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 general duty rate is 2.9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 59 (56th percentile of 59 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $290 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |