6114.20.00

Analysis

HTS 6114.20.00 covers other garments, knitted or crocheted: of cotton under heading 6114 (other garments, knitted or crocheted). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 13 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 0.9% to 32%. Compared with 6114.30.20 (bodysuits and bodyshirts), which pays 32%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 21.2 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 10.8%. 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 ten-digit suffixes separate men's or boys', women's or girls', jumpers, bodysuits and bodyshirts, boys' and women's or girls' and 7 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 90%, 8.3 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 10.8% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 61 (47th percentile of 227 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,080 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.