Analysis
HTS 8431.41.00 covers buckets, shovels, grabs and grips 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 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
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 333120 (Construction Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 651 US establishments employing 64,700 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
The ten-digit suffixes separate shovel attachments, clamshell and dragline buckets. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8431.10.00 | Of machinery of heading 8425 | Free |
| 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 |
| 8431.42.00 | 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 |