Pigment Red 254 High Performance Grade from China
Known as DPP Red, Pigment Red 254 delivers brilliant scarlet shades with outstanding weatherfastness for exterior automotive coatings. HTS 3204.17.40 explicitly covers this diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment. It's widely used in OEM paints requiring durability.
Duty Rate — China → United States
35%
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
• Request Color Index Generic Name (C.I
• Pigment Red 254) confirmation from manufacturer for accurate declaration
• Comply with VOC limits by verifying no carrier solvents present in the dry pigment form
• Watch for over-declaration of value including downstream processing costs