HTS Index

HTS 8431

Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430

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
8431.10.00Of machinery of heading 8425Free
8431.10.00.10Of machinery of subheading 8425.11 or 8425.19No.Free
8431.10.00.90OtherNo.Free
8431.20.00.00Of machinery of heading 8427No.Free
8431.31.00Of passenger or freight elevators other than continuous action, skip hoists or escalatorsFree
8431.31.00.20Of skip hoistsNo.Free
8431.31.00.40Of escalatorsNo.Free
8431.31.00.60OtherNo.Free
8431.39.00OtherFree
8431.39.00.10Of elevators and conveyorsNo.Free
8431.39.00.50Of oil and gas field machineryNo.Free
8431.39.00.70Of the woodland log handling equipment of statistical reporting number 8428.90.0310No.Free
8431.39.00.80OtherNo.Free
8431.41.00Buckets, shovels, grabs and gripsFree
8431.41.00.20Shovel attachmentsNo.Free
8431.41.00.40Clamshell (grappler) attachmentsNo.Free
8431.41.00.60Dragline bucketsNo.Free
8431.41.00.80OtherNo.Free
8431.42.00.00Bulldozer or angledozer bladesNo.Free
8431.43Parts for boring or sinking machinery of subheading 8430.41 or 8430.49see above
8431.43.40.00Of offshore oil and natural gas drilling and production platformsNo.Free
8431.43.80OtherFree
8431.43.80.20Tool joints, whether or not forgedNo.Free
8431.43.80.40Drill pipe fitted with tool jointsNo.Free
8431.43.80.60OtherNo.Free
8431.43.80.90Of other boring or sinking machineryNo.Free
8431.49Othersee above
8431.49.10Of machinery of heading 8426Free
8431.49.10.10Of machinery of subheadings 8426.11, 8426.19 and 8426.30No.Free
8431.49.10.60Of mobile lifting frames, straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a craneNo.Free
8431.49.10.70Of copper or copper alloysNo.Free
8431.49.10.80OtherNo.Free
8431.49.90OtherFree
8431.49.90.05Backhoe attachmentsNo.Free
8431.49.90.10Front-end loader attachmentsNo.Free
8431.49.90.15Rippers and rootersNo.Free
8431.49.90.20OtherNo.Free
8431.49.90.25Cast axle housingsNo.Free
8431.49.90.32Of copper or copper alloysNo.Free
8431.49.90.34OtherNo.Free
8431.49.90.35Cast axle housingsNo.Free
8431.49.90.36Road wheelsNo.Free
8431.49.90.38Wheel and tire assembliesNo.Free
8431.49.90.39Of copper or copper alloysNo.Free
8431.49.90.41OtherNo.Free
8431.49.90.45Scraper bowls for scrapers of subheadings 8429.30 and 8430.69.01No.Free
8431.49.90.50Track linksNo.Free
8431.49.90.55Cast axle housingsNo.Free
8431.49.90.81Steel forgingskgFree
8431.49.90.84Road wheelsNo.Free
8431.49.90.90Wheel and tire assembliesNo.Free
8431.49.90.92Of copper or copper alloysNo.Free
8431.49.90.94OtherNo.Free

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.