Analysis
HTS 7015.90.50 covers other: other 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.
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.
The other lines in the same group are 7015.90.10 (watch glasses: round, duty-free) and 7015.90.20 (watch glasses: 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 is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7015.90.10 | Watch glasses: round | Free |
| 7015.90.20 | Watch glasses: other | Free |