Fiber Constraints

Fiber Constraints

Summary of Fiber Constraints

The United States is party to various multilateral and bilateral agreements concerning the importation of certain textile products. In order to monitor compliance with these agreements, and to identify products subject to specific quantitative or other controls, it is necessary that certain products containing cotton, wool, or man-made fibers, or combinations thereof, be specially identified. Most articles having their whole or chief value of cotton, wool, or man-made fibers are adequately identified for monitoring purposes in the Tariff Schedules. However, where the tariff classification does not clearly identify the whole or chief value of the item as being of cotton, wool, or man-made fibers, the imported article must be classified under the applicable “constraint”classifications if it fills the definition of such a classification.

Where the designation “subject to cotton constraints,””subject to wool constraints,”or “subject to man- made fiber constraints”is used, such designation shall have the following meaning, as provided in Statistical headnote 3, Schedule 3, Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS):

A. Subject to Cotton Constraints. (I) Articles in which the cotton component equals or exceeds 50 percent by weight of all component fibers thereof; or (2) Articles in which the cotton with wool and/or man- made fibers in the aggregate equal or exceed 50 percent by weight of the component fibers thereof and the cotton component equals or exceeds the weight of each of the total wool and/or man-made fiber components.

B. Subject to Wool Constraints. Articles in which the wool content exceeds 17 percent by weight of all component fibers, and which are not provided for as “articles subject to cotton constraints.”

C. Subject to Man-Made Fiber Constraints. Articles not meeting the requirements of (A) or (B) above, but those in which: (1) The man-made fiber components equal or exceed 50 percent by weight of all component fibers thereof; or (2) The man-made fibers in combination with cotton and/or wool in the aggregate equal or exceed 50 percent by weight of the component fibers thereof and the man-made fiber component exceeds the weight of the total wool and/or total cotton component.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)


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