Analysis
HTS 8430.10.00 covers pile-drivers and pile-extractors under heading 8430 (other moving, grading, leveling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or…).
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.
All 10 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8430.20.00 | Snowplows and snowblowers | Free |
| 8430.31.00 | Coal or rock cutters and tunneling machinery: self-propelled | Free |
| 8430.39.00 | Coal or rock cutters and tunneling machinery: other | Free |
| 8430.41.00 | Other boring or sinking machinery: self-propelled | Free |
| 8430.49.40 | Offshore oil and natural gas drilling and production platforms | Free |
| 8430.49.80 | Other: other | Free |
| 8430.50.10 | Other machinery, self-propelled: peat excavators | Free |
| 8430.50.50 | Other machinery, self-propelled: other | Free |
| 8430.61.00 | Tamping or compacting machinery | Free |
| 8430.69.01 | Other machinery, not self-propelled: other | Free |