HTS heading · chapter 73
7302
Railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following: rails, check-rails and rack rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces, sleepers (cross-ties), fish-plates, chairs, chair wedges, sole plates (base plates), rail clips, bedplates, ties and other material specialized for jointing or fixing rails
Analysis
Heading 7302 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following: rails, check-rails and rack rails, switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces, sleepers (cross-ties), fish-plates…. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 6 eight-digit tariff lines, with 15 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
Every one of its 6 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 7302.10 (rails, 2 lines), 7302.90 (other, 2 lines), 7302.30 (unnamed, 1 line) and 7302.40 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 38th percentile of the headings in chapter 73.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Iron and Steel Mills and Ferroalloy Manufacturing (331110), All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (332999) and Iron Foundries (331511). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7302.10.10 | Of iron or nonalloy steel | Free |
| 7302.10.50 | Rails: of alloy steel | Free |
| 7302.30.00 | Switch blades, crossing frogs, point rods and other crossing pieces | Free |
| 7302.40.00 | Fish-plates and sole plates | Free |
| 7302.90.10 | Sleepers (cross-ties) | Free |
| 7302.90.90 | Other: other | Free |