7304.22.00

Analysis

HTS 7304.22.00 covers drill pipe of stainless steel under heading 7304 (tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron (other than cast iron) or steel). 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 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

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.

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.

The ten-digit suffixes separate having a wall thickness not exceeding…, having a wall thickness exceeding 9.5 mm and having an outside diameter exceeding…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.