Analysis
HTS 8709.11.00 covers vehicles: electrical under heading 8709 (works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the type…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8709.11.00.30 for operator riding and 8709.11.00.60 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 47% of the 212 tariff lines in chapter 87, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
The other lines in the same group are 8709.19.00 (vehicles: other, duty-free) and 8709.90.00 (works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or…, duty-free).
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333924 (Industrial Truck, Tractor, Trailer, and Stacker Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 336 US establishments employing 31,743 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8709.19.00 | Vehicles: other | Free |
| 8709.90.00 | Works trucks, self-propelled, not fitted with lifting or handling equipment, of the type used in factories, warehouses, dock areas or airports for short distance transport of goods; tractors of the type used on railway station platforms; parts of the foregoing vehicles: parts | Free |