Analysis
HTS 6404.19.90 covers valued over $12/pair under heading 6404 (footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in pairs.
Neighbouring lines carry rates from 7.5% to 48%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 6404.19.59 (other: other), at 48%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 39 percentage points.
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 9%. 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%, 3.9 times the general rate.
The general duty rate is 9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 64 (51st percentile of 131 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $900 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 6404.19.15 | Footwear having uppers of which over 50 percent of the external surface area (including any leather accessories or reinforcements such as those mentioned in note 4(a) to this chapter) is leather | 10.5% |
| 6404.19.20 | 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% |
| 6404.19.25 | With uppers of vegetable fibers | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.30 | Less than 10 percent by weight of rubber or plastics: other | 12.5% |
| 6404.19.36 | With uppers of vegetable fibers and 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 | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.37 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.39 | Other: other | 37.5% |
| 6404.19.42 | With uppers of vegetable fibers and 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 | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.47 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.49 | Having soles (or mid-soles, if any) of rubber or plastics which are affixed to the upper exclusively with an adhesive (any mid-soles also being affixed exclusively to one another and to the sole with an adhesive); the foregoing except footwear having a foxing or a foxing-like band applied or molded at the sole and overlapping the upper and except footwear with soles which overlap the upper other than at the toe or heel: other | 37.5% |
| 6404.19.52 | With uppers of vegetable fibers and having outer soles with textile 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 | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.57 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.59 | Other: other | 48% |
| 6404.19.61 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.69 | Having soles (or mid-soles, if any) of rubber or plastics which are affixed to the upper exclusively with an adhesive (any mid-soles also being affixed exclusively to one another and to the sole with an adhesive); the foregoing except footwear having a foxing or a foxing-like band applied or molded at the sole and overlapping the upper and except footwear with soles which overlap the upper other than at the toe or heel: other | 37.5% |
| 6404.19.72 | With uppers of vegetable fibers and 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 | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.77 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.79 | Other: other | 90¢/pr. + 37.5% |
| 6404.19.82 | Wither uppers of vegetable fibers and 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 | 7.5% |
| 6404.19.87 | With uppers of textile material other than vegetable fibers and 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% |
| 6404.19.89 | Valued over $6.50 but not over $12/pair: other | 90¢/pr. + 20% |