Analysis
HTS 8431.49.90 covers other: other 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 20 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
The ten-digit suffixes separate backhoe attachments, front-end loader attachments, rippers and rooters, cast axle housings, of copper or copper alloys and cast axle housings and 10 more. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
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.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. 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 is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Statistical suffixes
| Code | Description | Units | NAICS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8431.49.90.05 | Backhoe attachments | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.10 | Front-end loader attachments | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.15 | Rippers and rooters | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.20 | Other | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.25 | Cast axle housings | No. | 333131 |
| 8431.49.90.32 | Of copper or copper alloys | No. | |
| 8431.49.90.34 | Other | No. | |
| 8431.49.90.35 | Cast axle housings | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.36 | Road wheels | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.38 | Wheel and tire assemblies | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.39 | Of copper or copper alloys | No. | |
| 8431.49.90.41 | Other | No. | |
| 8431.49.90.45 | Scraper bowls for scrapers of subheadings 8429.30 and 8430.69.01 | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.50 | Track links | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.55 | Cast axle housings | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.81 | Steel forgings | kg | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.84 | Road wheels | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.90 | Wheel and tire assemblies | No. | 333120 |
| 8431.49.90.92 | Of copper or copper alloys | No. | |
| 8431.49.90.94 | Other | No. |
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 |
| 8431.41.00 | 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 |