Analysis
HTS 8426.49.00 covers other machinery, self-propelled: other under heading 8426 (ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8426.49.00.10 for cable operated and 8426.49.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 333120 (Construction Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 651 US establishments employing 64,700 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8426.11.00 | Overhead traveling cranes on fixed support | Free |
| 8426.12.00 | Mobile lifting frames on tires and straddle carriers | Free |
| 8426.19.00 | Overhead traveling cranes, transporter cranes, gantry cranes, bridge cranes, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers: other | Free |
| 8426.20.00 | Ships' derricks; cranes, including cable cranes; mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane: tower cranes | Free |
| 8426.30.00 | Portal or pedestal jib cranes | Free |
| 8426.41.00 | Other machinery, self-propelled: on tires | Free |
| 8426.91.00 | Designed for mounting on road vehicles | Free |
| 8426.99.00 | Other machinery: other | Free |