Analysis
HTS 7011.10.10 covers bulbs for incandescent lamps under heading 7011 (glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes), open, and glass parts thereof, without…).
Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 6.6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 7011.90.00 (glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes), open, and glass parts…), at 6.6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 6.6 percentage points.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 28% of the 192 tariff lines in chapter 70. 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 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.
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 is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7011.10.50 | For electric lighting: other | 4.6% |
| 7011.20.10 | For cathode-ray tubes: cones | 5.2% |
| 7011.20.45 | Monochrome glass envelopes, the foregoing certified by the importer as being for actual use in automatic data processing machine data or graphic display cathode ray tubes | Free |
| 7011.20.85 | Other: other | 5.2% |
| 7011.90.00 | Glass envelopes (including bulbs and tubes), open, and glass parts thereof, without fittings, for electric lamps and light sources, cathode-ray tubes or the like: other | 6.6% |