7312.10.10

Analysis

HTS 7312.10.10 covers of stainless steel: other under heading 7312 (stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or steel, not…). 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 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.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 332618 (Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing), an industry of 710 US establishments employing 19,060 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

The ten-digit suffixes separate tire cord and other, stranded wire having a lay or…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.