6404.11.81/Hemp Basketball Shoes Low-Top/Japan

Hemp Basketball Shoes Low-Top from Japan

Basketball-style gym shoes with breathable hemp fiber uppers providing the greatest external surface area, and outer soles featuring textile materials (e.g., reinforced fabric) with the largest ground-contact area. Classified in HTS 6404.11.81 for sports footwear valued $6.50-$12/pair, where textile soles are countable per U.S. note 5 exclusion terms. Meets criteria for vegetable fiber uppers under chapter leather/plastics notes.

Duty Rate — Japan → United States

52.5%

Rate breakdown

9903.41.1040%Footwear with outer soles of leather and uppers wholly or in part of leather, and footwear with outer soles of rubber or plastics and uppers having an exterior surface area predominantly of leather, the foregoing provided for in chapter 64, except (a) slip-on footwear of a type not suitable for outdoor use, without backs or backstraps, having outer soles with a thickness of less than 5 mm and with less than 20 mm difference between the thickness of the bottom at the ball of the foot and at the heel, and (b) footwear which is designed for a sporting activity and has, or has provision for, attached spikes, sprigs, stops, clips, bars or the like, and skating boots, ski-boots and cross-country ski footwear, wrestling boots, boxing boots and cycling shoes

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

• Obtain certificates of origin proving vegetable fibers (hemp) dominate upper; mislabeling as synthetic risks reclassification

• Conduct sole surface area analysis post-manufacture to affirm textile dominance, noting U.S. note 5 disregards weak textiles

• Package as individual pairs with valuation under $12 to avoid higher brackets; watch for set sales triggering different headings