7005.10.40

Analysis

HTS 7005.10.40 covers suitable for use in liquid crystal displays, measuring not over 1.2 mm in thickness and not over 0.8 m2 in area under heading 7005 (float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 5.6%. The costliest confusion would be with 7005.21.20 (measuring 10 mm or more in thickness) at 5.6%, a difference of 5.6 points on the customs value.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 60% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 60% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 28% of the 192 tariff lines in chapter 70 that are also free. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 327211 (Flat Glass Manufacturing), an industry of 135 US establishments employing 12,248 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.