9403.20.00

Analysis

HTS 9403.20.00 covers other furniture and parts thereof: other metal furniture under heading 9403 (other furniture and parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 13 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

The ten-digit suffixes separate floor-standing, metal-top ironing boards, cribs, toddler beds, bassinets, cradles, play…, mechanically adjustable bed or mattress…, mattress bases with legs, not foldable… and mechanically adjustable and 4 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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.

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.