8428.10.00

Analysis

HTS 8428.10.00 covers passenger or freight elevators other than continuous action; skip hoists under heading 8428 (other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery (for example, elevators…).

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 333921 (Elevator and Moving Stairway Manufacturing), an industry of 191 US establishments employing 8,360 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.

All 9 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.