8716.39.00

Analysis

HTS 8716.39.00 covers other trailers and semi-trailers for the transport of goods: other under heading 8716 (trailers and semi-trailers; other vehicles, not mechanically propelled; and parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 6 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 5.7%. Compared with 8716.90.30 (castors, other than those of heading 8302), which pays 5.7%, a misclassification either way moves 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.

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 ten-digit suffixes separate agricultural, for use with the vehicles of heading…, for use with the vehicles of heading…, van type and platform type. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.