9403.99.30

Analysis

HTS 9403.99.30 covers of reinforced or laminated plastics under heading 9403 (other furniture and parts thereof). 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 65% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 65% 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 337215 (Showcase, Partition, Shelving, and Locker Manufacturing), an industry of 789 US establishments employing 28,674 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The ten-digit suffixes separate for toddler beds, cribs, bassinets and… and for play yards and other enclosures for…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.