8716.20.00

Analysis

HTS 8716.20.00 covers self-loading or self-unloading trailers and semi-trailers for agricultural purposes under heading 8716 (trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; and parts thereof).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 5.7%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8716.90.30 (castors, other than those of heading 8302), at 5.7%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 5.7 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 47% of the 212 tariff lines in chapter 87. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 336212 (Truck Trailer Manufacturing), an industry of 569 US establishments employing 45,403 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.