The tariff classification of straw hats from China.

NY L89260 December 28, 2005 CLA-2-65:RR:NC:3:353 L89260 CATEGORY: Classification TARIFF NO.: 6504.00.3000; 6504.00.6000 Ms. Mindy Hu The Glove Source, Inc. 9104 Guilford Road Suite 1-D Columbia, MD 21046 RE: The tariff classification of straw hats from China. Dear Ms. Hu: In your letter dated December 5, 2005, you requested a tariff classification ruling. As requested, the samples will be returned to you. You have submitted five samples. Style 9469 Dress is a hat with a two piece sewn plaited straw crown and a sewn straw strip brim. Styles 9429 Telescope, 9464 Dress and 9476 Safari are hats made of strips of straw sewn in a circular pattern that radiate from the crowns. Styles 9469 and 9464 are fedora-style hats. Style 9429 and 9476 are cowboy-style hats. Styles 9471 Safari is a hat made of plaited straw. The hat has a sewed ½ inch border, however the balance of the crown and peak is not sewn and the hat is not considered a sewed together hat for classification purposes. Style 9471 is a wide brimmed fedora-style hat. The applicable subheading for styles 9469, 9429, 9464 and 9476 will be 6504.00.3000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for hats and other headgear, plaited or made by assembling strips of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed: of vegetable fibers, of unspun fibrous vegetable material, of paper yarn or of any combination thereof: sewed. The rate of duty will be and 6% ad valorem. The applicable subheading for style 9471 will be 6504.00.6000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for hats and other headgear, plaited or made by assembling strips of any material, whether or not lined or trimmed: of vegetable fibers, of unspun fibrous vegetable material, of paper yarn or of any combination thereof: not sewed. The rate of duty will be 94 cents per dozen and 4.6% ad valorem. Duty rates are provided for your convenience and are subject to change. The text of the most recent HTSUS and the accompanying duty rates are provided on World Wide Web at http://www.usitc.gov/tata/hts/. This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Part 177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177). A copy of the ruling or the control number indicated above should be provided with the entry documents filed at the time this merchandise is imported. If you have any questions regarding the ruling, contact National Import Specialist Kenneth Reidlinger at 646-733-3053. Sincerely, Robert B. Swierupski Director, National Commodity Specialist Division