4403.23.01

Analysis

HTS 4403.23.01 covers of fir (Abies spp.) and spruce (Picea spp.), of which the smallest cross-sectional dimension is 15 cm or more under heading 4403 (wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sap- wood, or roughly squared). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in metres.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 257 tariff lines in chapter 44. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

The ten-digit suffixes separate telephone, telegraph and electrical…, fence posts, spruce and other fir; balsam. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 113310 (Logging), an industry of 7,261 US establishments employing 42,916 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.