Analysis
HTS 6602.00.00 covers walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and the like under heading 6602 (walking-sticks, seat-sticks, whips, riding-crops and the like).
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 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 column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 10.0 times the general rate.
The general duty rate is 4% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 66 (44th percentile of 8 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $400 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
It is the only US line under subheading 6602.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 6602.00 points straight here.