7228

Analysis

Heading 7228 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers other bars and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes and sections, of other alloy steel; hollow drill bars and rods, of alloy or nonalloy steel. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 16 eight-digit tariff lines, with 35 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 16 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 7228.30 (of tool steel (other than high-speed steel), 4 lines), 7228.60 (other bars and rods, 3 lines), 7228.20 (bars and rods, of silico-manganese steel, 2 lines) and 7228.50 (other bars and rods, not further worked than…, 2 lines).

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.