Titanium Tetrachloride from China
Titanium tetrachloride (TiCl4) is a colorless fuming liquid used in titanium metal production and smoke screens. Though titanium is a metal, it's classified here as a halide of a transition nonmetal-like compound under 2812.90 per HTS practice. Chemically defined per Chapter 28.
Duty Rate — China → United States
38.7%
Rate breakdown
9903.03.0110%Except for products described in headings 9903.03.02–9903.03.11, articles the product of any country, as provided for in subdivision (aa) of U.S. note 2 to this subchapter
9903.88.0325%Except as provided in headings 9903.88.13, 9903.88.18, 9903.88.33, 9903.88.34, 9903.88.35, 9903.88.36, 9903.88.37, 9903.88.38, 9903.88.40, 9903.88.41, 9903.88.43, 9903.88.45, 9903.88.46, 9903.88.48, 9903.88.56, 9903.88.64, 9903.88.66, 9903.88.67, 9903.88.68, or 9903.88.69, articles the product of China, as provided for in U.S. note 20(e) to this subchapter and as provided for in the subheadings enumerated in U.S. note 20(f)
Import Tips
• UN1838 corrosive; moisture-sensitive—ship in sealed glass-lined steel drums
• TSCA premanufacture notice if new use; verify aerospace end-use exemptions
• Distinguish from metal powders (2827) by liquid anhydrous form