9401.39.00

Analysis

HTS 9401.39.00 covers swivel seats with variable height adjustment: other under heading 9401 (seats (other than those of heading 9402), whether or not convertible into beds, and parts…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 9401.39.00.10 for household and 9401.39.00.30 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 54% of the 110 tariff lines in chapter 94, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33712 (Household and Institutional Furniture Manufacturing), an industry of 3,955 US establishments employing 117,726 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.