9306

Analysis

Heading 9306 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers bombs, grenades, torpedoes, mines, missiles and similar munitions of war and parts thereof; cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, including shot and cartridgewads. It divides into 4 six-digit subheadings and 5 eight-digit tariff lines, with 15 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

Every one of its 5 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The largest subheadings are 9306.30 (other cartridges and parts thereof, 2 lines), 9306.21 (unnamed, 1 line), 9306.29 (unnamed, 1 line) and 9306.90 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 31st percentile of the headings in chapter 93.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Small Arms Ammunition Manufacturing (332992), Ammunition (except Small Arms) Manufacturing (332993) and Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (336414). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.