7306.30.30

Analysis

HTS 7306.30.30 covers tapered steel pipes and tubes principally used as parts of illuminating articles under heading 7306 (other tubes, pipes and hollow profiles (for example, open seamed or welded, riveted or…).

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.

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.

The other lines in the same group are 7306.30.10 (having a wall thickness of less than 1.65 mm, duty-free) and 7306.30.50 (having a wall thickness of 1.65 mm or more: other, 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. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.