9201.20.00

Analysis

HTS 9201.20.00 covers pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments: grand pianos under heading 9201 (pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard stringed instruments). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

The general duty rate is 4.7% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 92 (73rd percentile of 40 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $470 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 3.5% to 4.7%. The costliest confusion would be with 9201.90.00 (pianos, including player pianos; harpsichords and other keyboard…) at 3.5%, a difference of 1.2 points on the customs value.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 4.7%. 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 40%, 8.5 times the general rate.

The ten-digit suffixes separate used, containing a case measuring less than…, containing a case measuring 152.40 cm…, containing a case measuring 167.64 cm…, containing a case measuring 180.34 cm… and containing a case measuring 195.58 cm…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.