6111.90.05

Analysis

HTS 6111.90.05 covers of wool or fine animal hair under heading 6111 (babies' garments and clothing accessories, knitted or crocheted). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 26%. Compared with 6111.90.30 (t-shirts, singlets and similar garments, except those imported as…), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 13.6 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 13.6%. 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 78.5%, 5.8 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 6111.90.05.10 for sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, waistcoats (vests) and… and 6111.90.05.30 for other (439). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The general duty rate is 13.6% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 61 (56th percentile of 227 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,360 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.