Analysis
HTS 7015.90.10 covers watch glasses: round under heading 7015 (clock or watch glasses and similar glasses, glasses for noncorrective or corrective…).
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.
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.
The other lines in the same group are 7015.90.20 (watch glasses: other, duty-free) and 7015.90.50 (other: other, duty-free).
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 327215 (Glass Product Manufacturing Made of Purchased Glass), an industry of 955 US establishments employing 50,436 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
All 2 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7015.90.20 | Watch glasses: other | Free |
| 7015.90.50 | Other: other | Free |