7220.90.00

Analysis

HTS 7220.90.00 covers flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width of less than 600 mm: other under heading 7220 (flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width of less than 600 mm). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 46% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 46% duty.

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.

The ten-digit suffixes separate containing more than 1.5 percent but… and containing less than 15 percent by…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.