8701.30.50

Analysis

HTS 8701.30.50 covers track-laying tractors: other under heading 8701 (tractors (other than tractors of heading 8709)). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 4%. The costliest confusion would be with 8701.29.00 (road tractors for semi-trailers: other) at 4%, a difference of 4 points on the customs value.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 47% of the 212 tariff lines in chapter 87 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.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 27.5% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 27.5% duty.

The ten-digit suffixes separate with a net engine power of less than…, with a net engine power of 93.3 kW or…, with a net engine power of 119.4 kW or…, with a net engine power of 194 kW or…, with a net engine power of 257.4 kW or… and used. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.