Niobium Vanadium Chloride from Japan
Niobium vanadium mixed chloride is a complex chloride containing vanadium used in specialty alloy production and as a single-source precursor for thin films. Classified under HTS 2827.39.10.00 when the vanadium component predominates and meets chemically defined criteria. This aligns with notes allowing certain complex metal chlorides.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
12.5%
Rate breakdown
9903.05.4912.5%Except for products described in headings 9903.05.85–9903.05.92, articles the product of Japan, with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 12.5 percent, as provided for in U.S. note 52 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Elemental analysis required to prove vanadium content > principal component
• May require ITAR check if for aerospace alloys; provide civilian end-use cert
• Complex salt? Confirm not 2842 via solubility/stoichiometry data