HTS tariff line · chapter 88
8801.00.00
Balloons and dirigibles; gliders, hang gliders and other non-powered aircraft
Analysis
HTS 8801.00.00 covers balloons and dirigibles; gliders, hang gliders and other non-powered aircraft under heading 8801 (balloons and dirigibles; gliders, hang gliders and other non-powered aircraft). 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 50% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 50% duty.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 96% of the 28 tariff lines in chapter 88. 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 8801.00, 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 8801.00 points straight here.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing), an industry of 358 US establishments employing 172,941 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.