6203.49.09

Analysis

HTS 6203.49.09 covers of other textile materials: other under heading 6203 (men's or boys' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, trousers, bib and brace…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 27.9%. The costliest confusion would be with 6203.49.50 (trousers, breeches and shorts: other) at 27.9%, a difference of 25.1 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 2.8% of the customs value, which is at the low end of the rates in chapter 62 (16th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $280 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 12.5 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, and 10 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.8%. 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 ten-digit suffixes separate bib and brace overalls, subject to cotton restraints, subject to wool restraints, subject to man-made fiber restraints and shorts. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.