7225.40.51

Analysis

HTS 7225.40.51 covers of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm: of tool steel under heading 7225 (flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, of a width of 600 mm or more). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 92% of the 262 tariff lines in chapter 72 that are also free. 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 29% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 29% duty.

The other lines in the same group are 7225.40.11 (of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more: of tool steel, duty-free), 7225.40.30 (of a thickness of 4.75 mm or more: other, duty-free) and 7225.40.70 (of a thickness of less than 4.75 mm: other, duty-free).

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, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.