9505.10.50

Analysis

HTS 9505.10.50 covers other: other under heading 9505 (festive, carnival or other entertainment articles, including magic tricks and practical…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 90% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 90% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 9505.10.50.10 for artificial Christmas trees and 9505.10.50.20 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing), an industry of 3,012 US establishments employing 40,510 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.