7227.90

Analysis

Subheading 7227.90 covers other, within heading 7227. The first six digits are shared by every country that uses the Harmonized System, so this part of the code is the same in the US, UK and EU schedules; the 3 US tariff lines below it are national.

Every one of its 3 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the subheading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The US splits it as follows: 7227.90.10 for not tempered, not treated, and not partly manufactured (duty-free), 7227.90.20 for of tool steel (other than high-speed steel): other (duty-free) and 7227.90.60 for other: other (duty-free).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing (331110). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Goods only reach 7227.90 once they fall within heading 7227 (bars and rods, hot-rolled, in irregularly wound coils, of other alloy steel). Under General Rule 6, subheadings are then compared only with others at the same level, so a product is matched against its siblings, not against lines elsewhere in the chapter.