6202.30.20

Analysis

HTS 6202.30.20 covers overcoats, carcoats, capes, cloaks and similar coats: other under heading 6202 (women's or girls' overcoats, carcoats, capes, cloaks, anoraks (including ski jackets)…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from 4.4% to 8.9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6202.30.60 (containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage…), at 4.4%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 4.5 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 8.9%. 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 column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 90%, 10.1 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 8.9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 62 (58th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $890 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The ten-digit suffixes separate women's, girls', women's, girls', women's and girls'. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.