US imports of Trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, attache cases, briefcases

US imports under HTS 4202 at a glance

Between March and July 2026, US importers entered $4.67 billion of trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, attache cases, briefcases under HTS heading 4202, from all 55 origin countries covered here and across 84 ten-digit tariff lines — roughly $934 million a month of customs value under a single four-digit heading.

Heading 4202 sits in chapter 42, leather goods, handbags and travel goods, so anything classified here shares a duty structure with the rest of that chapter.

Who exports trunks, suitcases, vanity cases, attache cases, briefcases to the United States

Cambodia is the largest origin with $815 million, or 17.4% of the heading, with Italy at 14.2% and Vietnam at 13.5%. The top three take 45.2% between them — enough concentration to matter when one origin's duty treatment changes, but not so much that a buyer has no alternative to qualify.

Mexico sits near the top of the table, and the duty numbers reflect it: Mexico entered 96.3% of its value free of duty. Cargo that qualifies under USMCA and is claimed correctly at entry pays nothing; cargo that does not qualify, or that is never claimed, pays the ordinary rate. The certification is the whole difference.

What importers actually paid in duty

Almost everything under this heading is dutiable: 95% of entered value carried duty, and CBP collected $1.11 billion over the five months. The effective rate on dutiable value was 25.1%, which works out to $23.83 of duty per $100 of goods. There is no meaningful duty-free channel here — classification and origin are the only levers.

The spread between origins is real. Among origins with at least 2% of the heading, China paid the most duty relative to value — $44.85 per $100 — while Mexico paid $0.77. On a $250,000 purchase order that gap is about $110,000 in duty alone, which is worth pricing into a sourcing decision rather than discovering on the entry summary.

The 10-digit lines under heading 4202

84 ten-digit lines carried trade under this heading in the period. The largest, 4202.21.90.00, took 19.2% of the heading at $895 million. 4202.92.31.20, 4202.92.31.31 and 4202.22.15.00 follow. Rates diverge between those lines, so the classification your broker files is worth checking against the goods rather than carried over from the last entry.

What the duty stack looks like

The rate on an entry is not one number. It is a stack: the general (column 1) rate for the 10-digit line, less any trade-agreement preference the goods qualify for, plus whatever additional duties apply to that product and origin, all applied to the customs value declared. The $23.83 per $100 above is what that stack averaged across every entry in this heading — a benchmark, not a quote.

For the origins carrying the most volume, the per-country breakdowns go a level deeper: Cambodia (4202.92.31), Italy (4202.21.90) and Vietnam (4202.92.31). To price a specific shipment, put your 10-digit code and country of origin into the tariff simulator.

What this means for your next shipment

Classify first, confirm origin second, quote freight third. A heading like 4202 rewards that order, because the duty differences between lines and between origins are usually larger than the freight differences on the same lane. Airlift USA handles the freight and coordinates classification and entry through our licensed broker network.

For the operational side rather than the tariff side, see the E-commerce Ready Consumer Goods guide for how this cargo moves, the Cambodia to USA lane for transit times and ports and the heading index to compare against the rest of chapter 42.