Analysis
HTS 7616.99.10 covers other: luggage frames under heading 7616 (other articles of aluminum).
Neighbouring lines carry rates from 2.5% to 6%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 7616.10.90 (other: other), at 6%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 6 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.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 9% of the 65 tariff lines in chapter 76. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing), an industry of 3,501 US establishments employing 66,282 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 7616.10.10 | Nails, tacks and staples | 5.7% |
| 7616.10.30 | Nails, tacks, staples (other than those of heading 8305), screws, bolts, nuts, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter pins, washers and similar articles: rivets | 4.7% |
| 7616.10.50 | Cotters and cotter pins | 5.7% |
| 7616.10.70 | Having shanks, threads or holes over 6 mm in diameter | 5.5% |
| 7616.10.90 | Other: other | 6% |
| 7616.91.00 | Cloth, grill, netting and fencing, of aluminum wire | 2.5% |
| 7616.99.51 | Other: other | 2.5% |