7302.10.10

Analysis

HTS 7302.10.10 covers of iron or nonalloy steel under heading 7302 (railway or tramway track construction material of iron or steel, the following: rails…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 8 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 77% of the 250 tariff lines in chapter 73. Duty-free at the general rate does not rule out additional duties under Chapter 99, such as Section 301 or Section 232 measures, which depend on the country of origin.

The ten-digit suffixes separate standard tee rails over 30 kg per meter, over 30 kg per meter, standard tee rails over 30 kg per meter, over 30 kg per meter and railway rails for rerolling. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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 is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.