6201.90.59

Analysis

HTS 6201.90.59 covers containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste (735) under heading 6201 (men's or boys' overcoats, carcoats, capes, cloaks, anoraks (including ski jackets)…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 4.2%. The costliest confusion would be with 6201.90.69 (other: other) at 4.2%, a difference of 4.2 points on the customs value.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 6% of the 352 tariff lines in chapter 62 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 3152 (Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing), an industry of 3,430 US establishments employing 47,582 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.