8705.90.00

Analysis

HTS 8705.90.00 covers special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, wreckers, mobile cranes, fire… under heading 8705 (special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.

The other lines in the same group are 8705.10.00 (special purpose motor vehicles, other than those…, duty-free), 8705.20.00 (mobile drilling derricks, duty-free), 8705.30.00 (fire fighting vehicles, duty-free) and 8705.40.00 (special purpose motor vehicles, other than those…, duty-free).

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 336120 (Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturing), an industry of 109 US establishments employing 40,522 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.