7227.20.00

Analysis

HTS 7227.20.00 covers of silico-manganese steel under heading 7227 (bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of other alloy steel). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

For statistics it divides in two: 7227.20.00.30 for of welding quality wire rods of a kind described in… and 7227.20.00.80 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.

The other lines in the same group are 7227.10.00 (of high-speed steel, duty-free), 7227.90.10 (not tempered, not treated, and not partly manufactured, duty-free), 7227.90.20 (of tool steel (other than high-speed steel): other, duty-free) and 7227.90.60 (other: 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. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.