HTS tariff line · chapter 89
8902.00.00
Fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery products
Analysis
HTS 8902.00.00 covers fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery products under heading 8902 (fishing vessels; factory ships and other vessels for processing or preserving fishery…).
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 53% of the 32 tariff lines in chapter 89. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
It is the only US line under subheading 8902.00, 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 8902.00 points straight here.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), an industry of 497 US establishments employing 99,786 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.