7321.82.10

Analysis

HTS 7321.82.10 covers for liquid fuel: portable under heading 7321 (stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (including those with subsidiary boilers for central…).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 5.7%. Compared with 7321.90.60 (parts: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.9 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 2.9% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 73 (80th percentile of 250 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $290 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 45%, 15.5 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.9%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333414 (Heating Equipment (except Warm Air Furnaces) Manufacturing), an industry of 354 US establishments employing 17,079 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.