Analysis
HTS 7001.00.10 covers of fused quartz or other fused silica under heading 7001 (cullet and other waste and scrap of glass, excluding glass from cathode-ray tubes or…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 3%. Compared with 7001.00.20 (glass in the mass: other), which pays 3%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 3 percentage points.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 28% of the 192 tariff lines in chapter 70, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
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.
The other lines in the same group are 7001.00.20 (glass in the mass: other, 3%) and 7001.00.51 (cullet and other waste and scrap of glass, excluding glass…, duty-free).
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 327212 (Other Pressed and Blown Glass and Glassware Manufacturing), an industry of 376 US establishments employing 10,738 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7001.00.20 | Glass in the mass: other | 3% |
| 7001.00.51 | Cullet and other waste and scrap of glass, excluding glass from cathode-ray tubes or other activated glass of heading 8549; glass in the mass: other | Free |