Analysis
HTS 8431.10.00 covers of machinery of heading 8425 under heading 8431 (parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8431.10.00.10 for of machinery of subheading 8425.11 or 8425.19 and 8431.10.00.90 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 333923 (Overhead Traveling Crane, Hoist, and Monorail System Manufacturing), an industry of 321 US establishments employing 20,547 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8431.20.00 | Of machinery of heading 8427 | Free |
| 8431.31.00 | Of passenger or freight elevators other than continuous action, skip hoists or escalators | Free |
| 8431.39.00 | Of machinery of heading 8428: other | Free |
| 8431.41.00 | Buckets, shovels, grabs and grips | Free |
| 8431.42.00 | Bulldozer or angledozer blades | Free |
| 8431.43.40 | Of offshore oil and natural gas drilling and production platforms | Free |
| 8431.43.80 | Parts for boring or sinking machinery of subheading 8430.41 or 8430.49: other | Free |
| 8431.49.10 | Of machinery of heading 8426 | Free |
| 8431.49.90 | Other: other | Free |