6903.90.00

Analysis

HTS 6903.90.00 covers other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles, nozzles, plugs, supports, cupels, tubes, pipes, sheaths, rods and slide gates), other… under heading 6903 (other refractory ceramic goods (for example, retorts, crucibles, muffles, nozzles, plugs…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

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.

For statistics it divides in two: 6903.90.00.10 for of clay and 6903.90.00.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 27% of the 82 tariff lines in chapter 69, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.