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NY M86365




October 3, 2006

CLA-2-62:RR:NC:3:353 M86365

CATEGORY: CLASSIFICATION

TARIFF NO.: 6204.53.3020

Ms. Maureen Ford
One Geoffrey Way
Wayne, NJ 07470-2030

RE: The tariff classification of a costume from China.

Dear Ms. Ford:

In your letter dated September 7, 2006, you requested a classification ruling. As requested, the sample will be returned to you.

Your submitted sample, Style 750872 Light Up Musical TuTu is a girl’s costume skirt. The well-made costume consists of a skirt constructed of woven polyester fiber fabric with a double layer mesh overskirts. At the waist is device that plays “Swan Lake’ and fiber optic strands that light up. The skirt has styling features, a well-made waist and seams and finished top of the skirt edge.

The applicable subheading for style 750872 will be 6204.53.3020, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), which provides for provides for women’s or girls’ suits, ensembles, suit-type jackets, blazers, dresses, skirts, divided skirts, trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts: skirts and divided skirts: of synthetic fibers: other: other, girls’. The duty rate will be 16 percent 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/.

Style 750872 falls within textile category designation 642. With the exception of certain products of China, quota/visa requirements are no longer applicable for merchandise which is the product of World Trade Organization (WTO) member countries. The textile category number above applies to merchandise produced in non-WTO member-countries. Quota and visa requirements are the result of international agreements that are subject to frequent renegotiations and changes. To obtain the most current information on quota and visa requirements applicable to this merchandise, we suggest you check, close to the time of shipment, the “Textile Status Report for Absolute Quotas” which is available on our web site at www.cbp.gov. For current information regarding possible textile safeguard actions on goods from China and related issues, we refer you to the web site of the Office of Textiles and Apparel of the Department of Commerce at otexa.ita.doc.gov.

Please note that separate Federal Trade Commission marking requirements exist regarding country of origin, fiber content, and other information that must appear on many textile items. You should contact the Federal Trade Commission, Division of Enforcement, 6th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20580, for information on the applicability of these requirements to this item.

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,

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