3212.90.00/Silver Metallic Flake Paste/Japan

Silver Metallic Flake Paste from Japan

Nonaqueous paste of fine silver-colored metallic flakes for decorative industrial coatings and enamels. Classified HTS 3212.90.00 as metallic pigment dispersion in paste for paint manufacturing use.

Duty Rate — Japan → United States

12.5%

Rate breakdown

9903.05.4912.5%Section 301 (forced labor) — Japan (col1 rate < 12.5 percent): MFN < 12.5% → total duty capped at 12.5%

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Import Tips

• Distinguish imitation metallic from true silver via composition certificate

• Declare flake size distribution affecting dispersion quality

• Package in industrial drums, not consumer squeeze tubes