6202.30.50

Analysis

HTS 6202.30.50 covers other: 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.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 4.4% to 8.9%. The costliest confusion would be with 6202.30.60 (containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage…) at 4.4%, a difference of 4.5 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 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 with attachments for sleeves, 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.