6301.30.00

Analysis

HTS 6301.30.00 covers blankets (other than electric blankets) and traveling rugs, of cotton under heading 6301 (blankets and traveling rugs). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items and kilograms.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 11.4%. Compared with 6301.20.00 (blankets (other than electric blankets) and traveling rugs, of wool…), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 8.4 percentage points.

This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.08 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.

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 8.4%. 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 8.4% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 63 (66th percentile of 98 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $840 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

For statistics it divides in two: 6301.30.00.10 for woven (369) and 6301.30.00.20 for other (369). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.