6204.69.06

Analysis

HTS 6204.69.06 covers recreational performance outerwear: other under heading 6204 (women's or girls' suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from 1.1% to 28.6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6204.69.28 (trousers, breeches and shorts: other), at 28.6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 25.8 percentage points.

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 subject to cotton restraints, subject to wool restraints, subject to man-made fiber restraints, trousers and breeches, shorts and bib and brace overalls. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.