7321.89.00

Analysis

HTS 7321.89.00 covers other appliances: other, including appliances for solid fuel under heading 7321 (stoves, ranges, grates, cookers (including those with subsidiary boilers for central…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 5.7%. Compared with 7321.11.10 (for gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels: portable), which pays 5.7%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 5.7 percentage points.

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.

For statistics it divides in two: 7321.89.00.10 for fireplace grates of cast iron and 7321.89.00.50 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.