9504.20.40

Analysis

HTS 9504.20.40 covers articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: chalk under heading 9504 (video game consoles and machines, table or parlor games, including pinball machines…).

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 60% of the 84 tariff lines in chapter 95. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.

The other lines in the same group are 9504.20.20 (articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: balls, duty-free), 9504.20.60 (articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: tables, duty-free) and 9504.20.80 (articles and accessories for billiards of all kinds: other…, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339920 (Sporting and Athletic Goods Manufacturing), an industry of 1,662 US establishments employing 39,073 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.