8425.19.00

Analysis

HTS 8425.19.00 covers pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists or hoists of a kind used for raising vehicles: other under heading 8425 (pulley tackle and hoists other than skip hoists; winches and capstans; jacks).

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333923 (Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing), an industry of 321 US establishments employing 20,547 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

All 6 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.

The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.