8516.90.75

Analysis

HTS 8516.90.75 covers door assemblies, incorporating more than one of the following: inner panel; outer panel; window; insulation under heading 8516 (electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space…).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 3.9%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8516.90.90 (parts: other), at 3.9%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.9 percentage points.

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 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 335220 (Major Household Appliance Manufacturing), an industry of 180 US establishments employing 47,877 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.