8426.12.00

Analysis

HTS 8426.12.00 covers mobile lifting frames on tires and straddle carriers under heading 8426 (ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers…).

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. 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 333924 (Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 336 US establishments employing 31,743 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.

All 8 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.