HTS tariff line · chapter 44
4418.30.01
Posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418.81 to 4418.89
Analysis
HTS 4418.30.01 covers posts and beams other than products of subheadings 4418.81 to 4418.89 under heading 4418 (builders' joinery and carpentry of wood, including cellular wood panels and assembled…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 8%. Compared with 4418.74.90 (other: other), which pays 8%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 4.8 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 3.2% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 44 (67th percentile of 257 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $320 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.2%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 32121 (Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing), an industry of 1,456 US establishments employing 84,946 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 4418.11.00 | Windows, French-windows and their frames: of tropical wood | 3.2% |
| 4418.19.00 | Windows, French-windows and their frames: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.21.40 | Of tropical wood: french doors | 4.8% |
| 4418.21.80 | Of tropical wood: other | 4.8% |
| 4418.29.40 | Other: french doors | 4.8% |
| 4418.29.80 | Other: other | 4.8% |
| 4418.40.00 | Formwork (shuttering) for concrete constructional work | 3.2% |
| 4418.50.00 | Shingles and shakes | Free |
| 4418.73.10 | For mosaic floors: solid | Free |
| 4418.73.20 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | Free |
| 4418.73.30 | Other: other | 8% |
| 4418.73.40 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | 3.2% |
| 4418.73.60 | Of unidirectional bamboo | Free |
| 4418.73.70 | Other: other | 5% |
| 4418.73.90 | Of bamboo or with at least the top layer (wear layer) of bamboo: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.74.10 | Other, for mosaic floors: solid | Free |
| 4418.74.20 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | Free |
| 4418.74.90 | Other: other | 8% |
| 4418.75.40 | Having a face ply more than 6 mm in thickness | 3.2% |
| 4418.75.70 | Other, multilayer: other | 5% |
| 4418.79.01 | Assembled flooring panels: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.81.00 | Glue-laminated timber (glulam) | 3.2% |
| 4418.82.00 | Cross-laminated timber (CLT or X-lam) | 3.2% |
| 4418.83.00 | Engineered structural timber products: i-beams | 3.2% |
| 4418.89.00 | Engineered structural timber products: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.91.10 | Drilled or notched lumber studs | Free |
| 4418.91.91 | Of bamboo: other | 3.2% |
| 4418.92.00 | Cellular wood panels | 3.2% |
| 4418.99.10 | Drilled or notched lumber studs | Free |
| 4418.99.91 | Other: other | 3.2% |