7604.21.00

Analysis

HTS 7604.21.00 covers of aluminum alloys: hollow profiles under heading 7604 (aluminum bars, rods and profiles). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.

This line's footnotes point to one additional provision in Chapter 99: 9903.90.09 (measures on products of Russia). Chapter 99 duties are added on top of the general rate for goods of the countries they name, and they change more often than the rest of the schedule, so check the current CBP guidance before you rely on a total.

The general duty rate is 1.5% of the customs value, which is at the low end of the rates in chapter 76 (10th percentile of 65 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $150 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Rates on the nearby lines range from 2.6% to 5%. The costliest confusion would be with 7604.29.10 (other: other profiles) at 5%, a difference of 3.5 points on the customs value.

For statistics it divides in two: 7604.21.00.10 for heat-treatable industrial alloys of a kind described in… and 7604.21.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

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 1.5%. 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.