7312

Analysis

Heading 7312 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not electrically insulated. It divides into 2 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 23 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 10 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 7312.10 (stranded wire, ropes and cables, 9 lines) and 7312.90 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 38th percentile of the headings in chapter 73.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing (332618), Rope, Cordage, Twine, Tire Cord, and Tire Fabric Mills (314994) and Other Aluminum Rolling, Drawing, and Extruding (331318). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.