7228.10.00

Analysis

HTS 7228.10.00 covers bars and rods, of high-speed steel under heading 7228 (other bars and rods of other alloy steel; angles, shapes and sections, of other alloy…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 32% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 32% duty.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 92% of the 262 tariff lines in chapter 72, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.

The ten-digit suffixes separate not cold-formed, with a maximum cross-sectional… and with a maximum cross-sectional…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.