HTS tariff line · chapter 87
8710.00.00
Tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles
Analysis
HTS 8710.00.00 covers tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with weapons, and parts of such vehicles under heading 8710 (tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, motorized, whether or not fitted with weapons…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 3 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
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.
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.
It is the only US line under subheading 8710.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 8710.00 points straight here.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 336992 (Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing), an industry of 62 US establishments employing 11,831 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.