6204.63.01

Analysis

HTS 6204.63.01 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…).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 28.6%. Compared with 6204.63.90 (other: other), which pays 28.6%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 28.6 percentage points.

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.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 6% of the 352 tariff lines in chapter 62, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.