Chrome-Tanned Calf Lining Leather from Japan
Chrome-tanned calfskin lining leather in wet state, used primarily for lining luxury handbags and fine footwear. Classified under 4104.19.10.40 as whole bovine leather ≤28 sq ft, wet-blue process, without hair, not further prepared, distinguishing it from equine or split hides. Meets chapter exclusions for raw or hair-on materials.
Duty Rate — Japan → United States
52.5%
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
9903.41.0540%Bovine (including buffalo) and equine leather (provided for in heading 4104 or 4107); goat, kid, sheep and lamb leather, the foregoing dyed, colored, stamped or embossed (provided for in heading 4105, 4106, 4112 or 4113)
Import Tips
• Obtain tannery certificates confirming chrome wet-blue process and lining specification; measure surface area precisely as whole hides only qualify under .10; avoid common pitfall of mislabeling as upper leather which has separate subheading