6104.19.80

Analysis

HTS 6104.19.80 covers of other textile materials: other under heading 6104 (women's or girls' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 13.6%. The costliest confusion would be with 6104.19.50 (of wool or fine animal hair (444)) at 13.6%, a difference of 8 points on the customs value.

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 60%, 10.7 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate jackets imported as parts of suits, skirts and divided skirts imported as…, trousers, breeches and shorts imported…, waistcoats imported as parts of suits, subject to wool restraints and subject to man-made fiber restraints. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.