9205.10.00

Analysis

HTS 9205.10.00 covers brass-wind instruments under heading 9205 (wind musical instruments (for example, keyboard pipe organs, accordions, clarinets…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.9%. Compared with 9205.90.60 (other: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.9 percentage points.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 13.8 times the general rate.

For statistics it divides in two: 9205.10.00.40 for valued not over $10 each and 9205.10.00.80 for valued over $10 each. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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 2.9%. 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 general duty rate is 2.9% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 92 (49th percentile of 40 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $290 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.