7210.50.00

Analysis

HTS 7210.50.00 covers plated or coated with chromium oxides or with chromium and chromium oxides under heading 7210 (flat-rolled products of iron or nonalloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more, clad…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.

For statistics it divides in two: 7210.50.00.20 for of a width less than 1050 mm and 7210.50.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 92% of the 262 tariff lines in chapter 72. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 331110 (Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing), an industry of 359 US establishments employing 78,532 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.