6104.63.15

Analysis

HTS 6104.63.15 covers containing 23 percent or more by weight of wool or fine animal hair under heading 6104 (women's or girls' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 14.9% to 28.2%. Compared with 6104.63.20 (other: other), which pays 28.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 13.3 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Israel FTA, and 9 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 14.9%. 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 14.9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 61 (67th percentile of 227 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,490 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 54.5%, 3.7 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 6104.63.15.10 for trousers and breeches (448) and 6104.63.15.20 for shorts (448). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.