6204.62.03

Analysis

HTS 6204.62.03 covers containing 15 percent or more by weight of down and waterfowl plumage and of which down comprises 35 percent or more by weight; containing 10 percent or more… under heading 6204 (women's or girls' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 16.6%. The costliest confusion would be with 6204.62.80 (other: other) at 16.6%, a difference of 16.6 points on the customs value.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 60% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 60% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 6% of the 352 tariff lines in chapter 62 that are also free. 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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.