8429.11.00

Analysis

HTS 8429.11.00 covers bulldozers and angledozers: track laying under heading 8429 (self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levelers, scrapers, mechanical shovels…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

For statistics it divides in two: 8429.11.00.10 for new and 8429.11.00.90 for used or rebuilt. 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.