Cotton T-shirts: import duty by origin country

HS 610910 · HTS line 6109.10.00 · 18 origins · 6 distinct rates · Census 2026-09

Every origin that shipped HS 610910 to the US in 2026-09

Sorted cheapest first. The Column 1 rate is the same for all of them — it is a property of the HTS line, not of the origin — so the entire spread comes from the Chapter 99 headings in the fifth column. Only origins that shipped at least $100,000 in the month are listed; below that the value is rounding noise.

What the spread costs

96.6% of the month's $217.9M arrived from an origin that is not the cheapest one available on this line. Priced at each origin's own rate, the mix carried about $66,131,024 of duty. The same $217.9M sourced entirely from Italy at 16.5% would have carried about $35,946,158 — a difference of about $30,184,866, or 13.86 percentage points.

That is an arithmetic statement about the rate schedule, not a sourcing recommendation. It ignores freight, lead time, minimum order quantity, capacity, quality and the origin rules a preference program would require — all of which can exceed the duty difference. It also assumes the same goods at the same declared value, which is exactly the assumption a real sourcing decision has to test.

The headings behind the spread

Each row is one Chapter 99 heading the engine charged somewhere in the table above, and the origins it reached. A heading that reaches one origin is what makes that origin's rate different from its neighbours'.

How concentrated the sourcing already is

The three largest origins — Honduras ($44.1M), Bangladesh ($33.4M), Vietnam ($32.7M) — account for 50.6% of the month's imports under this code. 13 of the 18 origins listed here shipped at least $1,000,000. A code this concentrated means a rate change on any one of those headings moves most of the trade, which is why the origin column above is sorted by rate and this one by value.

Month over month, same origins only

Only origins present in both months are compared, so the change is not a mix effect from an origin appearing or dropping out.

Price your own value and quantity

The button opens the calculator with line 6109.10.00, origin IT (the cheapest here) and $10,000 already filled in. Change the origin to compare any other row of the table.

Other ways into this question

• Price any value or quantity in the calculator (6109.10.00 prefilled)
• Heading 6109 — the four-digit level
• Chapter 61 — the whole chapter
• Import duty by product and country — one pair at a time
• Duty by country — every product page
• All HS codes
• Plans: what Pro adds over the free tools

Frequently asked questions

Which country has the lowest US import duty on cotton t-shirts?

Of the 18 origins that shipped HS 610910 to the United States in 2026-09, Italy carried the lowest effective rate at 16.5% on HTS line 6109.10.00 (16.5% Column 1 plus 0% of Chapter 99). Canada carried the highest at 111.5%.

How much does the origin country change the duty on HS 610910?

By 95 percentage points between the cheapest and the dearest origin priced here. The Column 1 rate is identical for every origin, so the whole difference comes from which Chapter 99 headings reach which country.

How much did the origin mix cost in 2026-09?

The month's $217,855,505 of imports under this code carried about $66,131,024 of duty at each origin's own rate. Sourcing the same value entirely from Italy would have carried about $35,946,158.

Is the cheapest origin always the right place to source from?

No. The rate is one input. Freight, lead time, minimum order quantities, factory capacity, quality and the origin rules a preference program requires can each exceed a duty difference. This page prices the duty, and says so.

Is every rate on this page final?

Not for the rows that include heading 9903.03.14. This site's Chapter 99 reach registry records that heading's line scope as truncated, so a rate containing it is an upper bound. Every other rate here is the engine's answer for that origin and is re-checked against the API on every build.

Where do these numbers come from?

The rates are the live answer of this site's tariff engine for HTS 6109.10.00 at each origin. The line text comes from the USITC HTS export dated 2026-11-06. The import values are the U.S. Census Bureau general-imports series for 2026-09. The dollar figures are this page's own arithmetic on those two sources, and a reconciliation gate recomputes them on every build.