7305.31.20

Analysis

HTS 7305.31.20 covers tapered pipes and tubes of steel principally used as parts of illuminating articles under heading 7305 (other tubes and pipes (for example, welded, riveted or similarly closed), having circular…).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 77% of the 250 tariff lines in chapter 73 that are also free. 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 other lines in the same group are 7305.31.40 (of iron or nonalloy steel, duty-free) and 7305.31.60 (other: of alloy steel, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 331210 (Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel), an industry of 294 US establishments employing 27,433 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.