Analysis
HTS 8545.11.00 covers of a kind used for furnaces under heading 8545 (carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 58% of the 624 tariff lines in chapter 85 that are also free. 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 335991 (Carbon and Graphite Product Manufacturing), an industry of 179 US establishments employing 9,844 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
The ten-digit suffixes separate not exceeding 425 mm in diameter and exceeding 425 mm in diameter. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8545.19.20 | Of a kind used for electrolytic purposes | Free |
| 8545.19.40 | Other: other | Free |
| 8545.20.00 | Carbon electrodes, carbon brushes, lamp carbons, battery carbons and other articles of graphite or other carbon, with or without metal, of a kind used for electrical purposes: brushes | Free |
| 8545.90.20 | Other: arc light carbons | Free |
| 8545.90.40 | Other: other | Free |