6206.30.30

Analysis

HTS 6206.30.30 covers other: other under heading 6206 (women's or girls' blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 8 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 3.5% to 9%. Compared with 6206.30.20 (containing 36 percent or more by weight of flax fibers (341)), which pays 3.5%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 11.9 percentage points.

Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, the Israel FTA, and 9 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 15.4%. 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 general duty rate is 15.4% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 62 (80th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,540 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 90%, 5.8 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate containing compact yarns described in…, women's, imported as parts of playsuits, designed for use in hospitals, clinics… and imported as parts of playsuits. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.