8802.60

Analysis

Subheading 8802.60 covers spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles, within heading 8802. The first six digits are shared by every country that uses the Harmonized System, so this part of the code is the same in the US, UK and EU schedules; the 2 US tariff lines below it are national.

Every one of its 2 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the subheading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The US splits it as follows: 8802.60.30 for communications satellites (duty-free) and 8802.60.90 for spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft… (duty-free).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (336414) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (334220). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Goods only reach 8802.60 once they fall within heading 8802 (other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading…). Under General Rule 6, subheadings are then compared only with others at the same level, so a product is matched against its siblings, not against lines elsewhere in the chapter.