7019.65.51

Analysis

HTS 7019.65.51 covers fiberglass tire cord woven from electrically nonconductive continuous fiberglass filaments 9 microns in diameter to 11 microns in diameter and impregnated with… under heading 7019 (glass fibers (including glass wool) and articles thereof (for example, yarn, rovings…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 7.3%. The costliest confusion would be with 7019.66.40 (not colored: other) at 7.3%, a difference of 7.3 points on the customs value.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 50% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 50% 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 314994 (Rope, Cordage, Twine, Tire Cord, and Tire Fabric Mills), an industry of 124 US establishments employing 6,176 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.