8802.40.01

Analysis

HTS 8802.40.01 covers airplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000 kg under heading 8802 (other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 8 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

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.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.

The ten-digit suffixes separate fighters, cargo transports, passenger transports, cargo transports, military aircraft and other aircraft. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.

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.