7228.30.80

Analysis

HTS 7228.30.80 covers other bars and rods, not further worked than hot-rolled, hot-drawn or extruded: other 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 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

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.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 28% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 28% duty.

The ten-digit suffixes separate of high-nickel alloy steel, concrete reinforcing bars and rods, with a diameter or cross section…, with a diameter or cross section…, with a diameter or cross section… and with a diameter or cross section…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.