7019.73.51

Analysis

HTS 7019.73.51 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…).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 7.3%. Compared with 7019.66.40 (not colored: other), which pays 7.3%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 7.3 percentage points.

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.

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.

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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.