6211.49.15

Analysis

HTS 6211.49.15 covers of wool or fine animal hair under heading 6211 (track suits, ski-suits and swimwear; other garments). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 7 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 1.2% to 12%. The costliest confusion would be with 6211.49.50 (containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste) at 1.2%, a difference of 10.8 points on the customs value.

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 12%. 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 12% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 62 (66th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $1,200 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 58.5%, 4.9 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate trousers, blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses…, jumpers, 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.