6203.49.60

Analysis

HTS 6203.49.60 covers containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste 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 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 27.9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6203.49.50 (trousers, breeches and shorts: other), at 27.9%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 27.9 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.