8705

Analysis

Heading 8705 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, wreckers, mobile cranes, fire fighting vehicles, concrete mixers, road sweepers, spraying…. It divides into 5 six-digit subheadings and 5 eight-digit tariff lines, with 8 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 5 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 23rd percentile of the headings in chapter 87.

The largest subheadings are 8705.10 (unnamed, 1 line), 8705.20 (unnamed, 1 line), 8705.30 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8705.40 (unnamed, 1 line).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturing (336120), Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing (333924) and Oil and Gas Field Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333132). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.