HTS Index

HTS 2844

Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes (including the fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes) and their compounds; mixtures and residues containing these products

General rateNot stated for this line
What most imports pay — countries with normal trade relations, which is nearly all of them.
Special rateNot stated for this line
Only under a trade programme or agreement, and only if the goods qualify. The codes name the programmes.
Column 2 rateNot stated for this line
Only for the few countries without normal trade relations.

This line states no general duty rate, and none is inherited from the lines above it. That is not the same as duty-free: lines in Chapters 98 and 99 are provisions and qualifiers rather than ordinary commodities, and a rate may be stated elsewhere. Check the heading before assuming anything.

Additional duties may apply

This line references Chapter 99, where Section 301, Section 232 and other additional duties live. Those are charged on top of the general rate above and depend on where the goods were made. The rate shown here is therefore not the whole story for every origin.

What the Chapter 99 provisions are

Statistical breakouts

The 10-digit lines under this code. They are reporting categories; the duty is the one above unless a line states its own.

CodeDescriptionUnitsRate
2844.10Natural uranium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing natural uranium or natural uranium compoundssee above
2844.10.10.00Uranium metalkg5%
2844.10.20Uranium compoundsFree
2844.10.20.10OxidekgFree
2844.10.20.25HexafluoridekgFree
2844.10.20.55OtherkgFree
2844.10.50.00Otherkg5%
2844.20.00Uranium enriched in U235 and its compounds; plutonium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium enriched in U235, plutonium or compounds of these productsFree
2844.20.00.10OxidekgFree
2844.20.00.20FluorideskgFree
2844.20.00.30OtherkgFree
2844.20.00.50OtherkgFree
2844.30Uranium depleted in U235 and its compounds; thorium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing uranium depleted in U235, thorium, or compounds of these productssee above
2844.30.10.00Thorium compoundskg5.5%
2844.30.20Uranium compoundsFree
2844.30.20.10OxidekgFree
2844.30.20.20FluorideskgFree
2844.30.20.50OtherkgFree
2844.30.50Other5%
2844.30.50.10Uranium metalkg5%
2844.30.50.50Otherkg5%
2844.41.00.00Tritium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing tritium or its compoundskgFree
2844.42.00.00Actinium-225, actinium-227, californium-253, curium-240, curium-241, curium-242, curium-243, curium-244, einsteinium-253, einsteinium-254, gadolinium-148, polonium-208, polonium-209, polonium-210, radium-223, uranium-230 or uranium-232, and their compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements or compoundsGBqFree
2844.43.00Other radioactive elements and isotopes and compounds; other alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements, isotopes or compoundsFree
2844.43.00.10Elements, isotopes and compounds with cobalt-60 radioactivity onlyGBqFree
2844.43.00.21Americium-241, californium-252, cesium-137, gadolinium-153, idium-192, promethium-147, radium-226, selenium-75, or ytterbium-169GBqFree
2844.43.00.28OtherGBqFree
2844.43.00.50OtherkgFree
2844.44.00.00Radioactive residueskgFree
2844.50.00.00Spent (irradiated) fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactorskgFree

What changed

No recorded change to this line since we began reading the schedule daily. That is the ordinary state: USITC revises it fifteen to eighteen times a year, and most codes are untouched in any given revision.

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Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, U.S. International Trade Commission (public domain). Re-checked daily.