Analysis
HTS 7216.99.00 covers other: other under heading 7216 (angles, shapes and sections of iron or nonalloy steel). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
For statistics it divides in two: 7216.99.00.10 for drilled, notched, punched or cambered and 7216.99.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 92% of the 262 tariff lines in chapter 72, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.
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 concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7216.10.00 | U, I or H sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of less than 80 mm | Free |
| 7216.21.00 | L or T sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of less than 80 mm: l sections | Free |
| 7216.22.00 | L or T sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of less than 80 mm: t sections | Free |
| 7216.31.00 | U, I or H sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80 mm or more: u sections | Free |
| 7216.32.00 | I sections (standard beams) | Free |
| 7216.33.00 | U, I or H sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80 mm or more: h sections | Free |
| 7216.40.00 | L or T sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded, of a height of 80 mm or more | Free |
| 7216.50.00 | Angles, shapes and sections of iron or nonalloy steel: other angles, shapes and sections, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded | Free |
| 7216.61.00 | Obtained from flat-rolled products | Free |
| 7216.69.00 | Angles, shapes and sections, not further worked than cold-formed or cold-finished: other | Free |
| 7216.91.00 | Cold-formed or cold-finished from flat-rolled products | Free |