Analysis
HTS 6402.99.79 covers valued over $3 but not over $6.50/pair: other under heading 6402 (other footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in pairs.
The general rate is 90¢/pr. + 37.5%, a specific or compound duty rather than a simple percentage, so the effective burden depends on the unit value of the goods: cheap goods pay proportionally more than expensive ones. Importers usually convert it to an ad valorem equivalent to compare it with other lines.
Goods that qualify under the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, AGOA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 90¢/pr. + 37.5%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 316210 (Footwear Manufacturing), an industry of 201 US establishments employing 8,781 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6402.99.04 | Having uppers of which over 90 percent of the external surface area (including any accessories or reinforcements such as those mentioned in note 4(a) to this chapter) is rubber or plastics (except footwear having foxing or a foxing-like band applied or molded at the sole and overlapping the upper and except footwear designed to be worn over, or in lieu of, other footwear as a protection against water, oil, grease or chemicals or cold or inclement weather) | 6% |
| 6402.99.08 | Footwear designed to be worn over, or in lieu of, other footwear as a protection against water, oil, grease or chemicals or cold or inclement weather | 37.5% |
| 6402.99.12 | Valued not over $3/pair | 24% |
| 6402.99.16 | Valued over $3 but not over $6.50/pair | 90¢/pr. + 37.5% |
| 6402.99.19 | Valued over $6.50 but not over $12/pair | 90¢/pr. + 20% |
| 6402.99.21 | Valued over $12/pair | 20% |
| 6402.99.23 | Made on a base or platform of wood | 8% |
| 6402.99.25 | Made on a base or platform of cork | 12.5% |
| 6402.99.27 | Sandals and similar footwear of plastics, produced in one piece by molding | 3% |
| 6402.99.31 | Other: other | 6% |
| 6402.99.32 | Protective active footwear | 20% |
| 6402.99.33 | Footwear designed to be worn over, or in lieu of, other footwear as a protection against water, oil, grease or chemicals or cold or inclement weather | 37.5% |
| 6402.99.41 | Having outer soles with textile materials having the greatest surface area in contact with the ground, but not taken into account under the terms of additional U.S. note 5 to this chapter | 12.5% |
| 6402.99.49 | Footwear with open toes or open heels; footwear of the slip-on type, that is held to the foot without the use of laces or buckles or other fasteners, the foregoing except footwear of subheading 6402.99.33 and except footwear having a foxing or a foxing-like band wholly or almost wholly of rubber or plastics applied or molded at the sole and overlapping the upper: other | 37.5% |
| 6402.99.61 | Having outer soles with textile materials having the greatest surface area in contact with the ground, but not taken into account under the terms of additional U.S. note 5 to this chapter | 12.5% |
| 6402.99.69 | Valued not over $3/pair: other | 48% |
| 6402.99.71 | Having outer soles with textile materials having the greatest surface area in contact with the ground, but not taken into account under the terms of additional U.S. note 5 to this chapter | 12.5% |
| 6402.99.80 | Valued over $6.50 but not over $12/pair | 90¢/pr. + 20% |
| 6402.99.90 | Valued over $12/pair | 20% |