7418.10.00

Analysis

HTS 7418.10.00 covers table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like under heading 7418 (table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of copper; pot scourers and…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 9 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

The general duty rate is 3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 74 (74th percentile of 89 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $300 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 13.3 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

The ten-digit suffixes separate of copper-zinc base alloys, coated or plated with precious metals, cooking or heating apparatus of a kind…, cooking and kitchen ware, cooking or heating apparatus of a kind… and cooking and kitchen ware. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.