6103.49.80

Analysis

HTS 6103.49.80 covers of other textile materials: other under heading 6103 (men's or boys' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 9 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 0.9% to 28.2%. Compared with 6103.49.10 (trousers, breeches and shorts), which pays 28.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 22.6 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 5.6% of the customs value, which is at the low end of the rates in chapter 61 (28th percentile of 227 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $560 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

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 5.6%. 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%, 6.2 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate subject to cotton restraints, subject to wool restraints, subject to man-made fiber restraints, trousers and breeches, shorts and subject to cotton restraints and 2 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.