9401.69.20

Analysis

HTS 9401.69.20 covers other: bent-wood seats 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 42.5% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 42.5% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 9401.69.20.10 for household and 9401.69.20.30 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.

The other lines in the same group are 9401.69.40 (chairs: of teak, duty-free), 9401.69.60 (chairs: other, duty-free) and 9401.69.80 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 337122 (Nonupholstered Wood Household Furniture Manufacturing), an industry of 2,075 US establishments employing 22,266 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.