6201.30.80

Analysis

HTS 6201.30.80 covers other: other under heading 6201 (men's or boys' overcoats, carcoats, capes, cloaks, anoraks (including ski jackets)…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 4.4% to 9.4%. The costliest confusion would be with 6201.30.60 (containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage…) at 4.4%, a difference of 5 points on the customs value.

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 9.4%. 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 90%, 9.6 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 9.4% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 62 (60th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $940 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The ten-digit suffixes separate with attachments for sleeves, corduroy, men's, boys', men's and boys'. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.