9401.69.60

Analysis

HTS 9401.69.60 covers chairs: 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 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 54% of the 110 tariff lines in chapter 94 that are also free. 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 9401.69.20 (other: bent-wood seats, duty-free), 9401.69.40 (chairs: of teak, duty-free) and 9401.69.80 (other: other, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 337127 (Institutional Furniture Manufacturing), an industry of 516 US establishments employing 21,451 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The ten-digit suffixes separate chairs for children including highchairs and other household. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.