6211.39.80

Analysis

HTS 6211.39.80 covers other: other under heading 6211 (track suits, ski-suits and swimwear; other garments). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 8 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from 0.5% to 12%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6211.39.30 (of wool or fine animal hair), at 12%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 9.2 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 9 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 coveralls, jumpsuits and similar apparel, washsuits, sunsuits, one-piece…, trousers, shirts excluded from heading 6205, vests and jackets and jacket-type garments…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.