6211.49.80

Analysis

HTS 6211.49.80 covers other: other under heading 6211 (track suits, ski-suits and swimwear; other garments). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 9 ten-digit suffixes, reported in dozens and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from 1.2% to 12%. Compared with 6211.49.50 (containing 70 percent or more by weight of silk or silk waste), which pays 1.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 6.1 percentage points.

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 7.3%. 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 column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 4.8 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate coveralls, jumpsuits and similar apparel, washsuits, sunsuits, one-piece…, trousers, blouses, shirts and shirt-blouses…, jumpers and vests and 1 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

The general duty rate is 7.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 62 (47th percentile of 352 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $730 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.