7306.29.10

Analysis

HTS 7306.29.10 covers threaded or coupled under heading 7306 (other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for example, open seamed or welded, riveted or…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

For statistics it divides in two: 7306.29.10.30 for imported with coupling and 7306.29.10.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 77% of the 250 tariff lines in chapter 73, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.

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 concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.