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What Brazil actually pays on cumene

Importers of HS 2902.70 (cumene) from Brazil actually paid 10% on the taxed portion of the value in 2026-06 — 10% across everything shipped, taxed or not. Measured from official duty receipts, not the rulebook: the statutory MFN base rate on this code is Free. Over the window the rate on the taxed portion moved null% → 10%, with the largest single step +10pp in 2026-06. Measured from official US duty receipts · as-of 2026-06 · confidence: measured, not modelled. The HTS base rate is Free — importers actually paid 10%, so the trade-war overlay added 10 pts, measured at the border (not a summed rulebook estimate). Reproduce exactly: tariff_story(hs: "2902.70", origin: "Brazil") · see it at trimtabist.com/tariffs

HS 2902.70. The schedule base rate is Free; importers from Brazil actually paid 10% on the dutiable value in 2026-06 — the trade-war overlay added 10 points, measured at the border. Measured, not modelled.

Over the window the collected rate moved % (2023-11) → 10% (2026-06), largest single step +10pp in 2026-06.

The trade-war measures that name Brazil or this sector

8 Chapter-99 measures name Brazil; scope mapping is partial (several annexes are PDFs) — absence never means exemption. They do not sum, and some are product-specific — the collected rate above is the composed truth.

9903.01.77
measure 9903.01.77
+40%
Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions Process
measure 9903.02.01 · Federal Register citation
+40%
9903.02.10
measure 9903.02.10
+25%
9903.05.01
measure 9903.05.01
+25%
9903.05.20
measure 9903.05.20
+12.5%
9903.05.27
measure 9903.05.27
+12.5%
9903.02.09
measure 9903.02.09
+10%
9903.05.28
measure 9903.05.28
+10%

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All goods from Brazil · the whole tariff ledger · reproduce: tariff_story(hs: "2902.70", origin: "Brazil") via /connect. Not customs or legal advice.

In print: “What Brazil actually pays on cumene (HS 2902.70)” — Trimtab US Trade Ledger (TT-010 Duty receipts), US Census imports-for-consumption records — trimtabist.com/tariff/290270/brazil