8112.49.00

Analysis

HTS 8112.49.00 covers rhenium: other under heading 8112 (beryllium, chromium, hafnium, rhenium, thallium, cadmium, germanium, vanadium, gallium…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 8.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 8112.12.00 (unwrought; powders) at 8.5%, a difference of 4.5 points on the customs value.

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 4%. 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 column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 45%, 11.2 times the general rate.

The general duty rate is 4% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 81 (60th percentile of 71 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $400 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 331491 (Nonferrous Metal (except Copper and Aluminum) Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding), an industry of 199 US establishments employing 12,115 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.