6202.90.59

Analysis

HTS 6202.90.59 covers containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste (735) under heading 6202 (women's or girls' overcoats, carcoats, capes, cloaks, anoraks (including ski jackets)…).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 2.8%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6202.90.69 (other: other), at 2.8%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 2.8 percentage points.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 6% of the 352 tariff lines in chapter 62. 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. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.