Analysis
HTS 9403.60.80 covers other wooden furniture: other under heading 9403 (other furniture and parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 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.
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 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.
The ten-digit suffixes separate play yards and other enclosures for…, dining tables and of teak. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 9403.10.00 | Metal furniture of a kind used in offices | Free |
| 9403.20.00 | Other furniture and parts thereof: other metal furniture | Free |
| 9403.30.40 | Bent-wood furniture | Free |
| 9403.30.80 | Wooden furniture of a kind used in offices: other | Free |
| 9403.40.40 | Bent-wood furniture | Free |
| 9403.40.60 | Designed for motor vehicle use | Free |
| 9403.40.90 | Other: other | Free |
| 9403.50.40 | Bent-wood furniture | Free |
| 9403.50.60 | Designed for motor vehicle use | Free |
| 9403.50.90 | Other: other | Free |
| 9403.60.40 | Bent-wood furniture | Free |
| 9403.70.40 | Of reinforced or laminated plastics | Free |
| 9403.70.80 | Furniture of plastics: other | Free |
| 9403.82.00 | Furniture of other materials, including cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials: of bamboo | Free |
| 9403.83.00 | Furniture of other materials, including cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials: of rattan | Free |
| 9403.89.30 | Of cane, osier or similar materials | Free |
| 9403.89.60 | Other: other | Free |
| 9403.91.00 | Parts: of wood | Free |
| 9403.99.10 | Of furniture of a kind used for motor vehicles | Free |
| 9403.99.20 | Of cane, osier, bamboo or similar materials | Free |
| 9403.99.30 | Of reinforced or laminated plastics | Free |
| 9403.99.40 | Of rubber or plastics: other | Free |
| 9403.99.50 | Of textile material, except cotton | Free |
| 9403.99.90 | Other: other | Free |