9403.30.80

Analysis

HTS 9403.30.80 covers wooden furniture of a kind used in offices: other under heading 9403 (other furniture and parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in .

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.

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 ten-digit suffixes separate of Padauk, of Rosewood, Palissander, Cocobolo…, of teak and of Wenge. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 337211 (Wood Office Furniture Manufacturing), an industry of 299 US establishments employing 13,196 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.