Perfluoropentene (C5F10) from Germany
Perfluoropentene serves as a specialty gas for plasma cleaning and etching in microelectronics fabrication. Falls under HTS 2903.59.90.00 as an unsaturated fluorinated acyclic hydrocarbon per Chapter 29 note (a). Its complete perfluorination excludes it from partially halogenated hydrocarbon classifications.
Duty Rate — Germany → United States
21.3%
Rate breakdown
9903.04.6211.3%Patented pharmaceutical articles that are the product of Japan, of a European Union member country, of South Korea, of Switzerland, or of Liechtenstein as provided for in subdivisions (c) and (f) of U.S. note 40 to this subchapter
9903.05.3910%Except for products described in headings 9903.05.85–9903.05.92 and 9903.05.97, articles the product of a member state of the European Union, with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 10 percent, as provided for in U.S. note 52 to this subchapter
Import Tips
• Submit REACH or TSCA pre-manufacture notices if not previously registered in US
• Verify cylinder requalification dates per DOT 49 CFR 173.302 for compressed gases
• Include end-use statements certifying semiconductor manufacturing application