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Heavy-Duty Dragline Excavator Bucket from Germany

A large-capacity bucket designed specifically for dragline excavators used in surface mining operations, featuring reinforced steel construction for handling overburden and ore. It falls under HTS 8431.41.00.60 as a dragline bucket, a part suitable solely or principally for machinery of heading 8430 such as dragline excavators. The open-front design allows material to be dragged towards the machine for efficient loading into haul trucks.

Duty Rate — Germany → United States

15%

Rate breakdown

9903.82.1015%Except as provided for in headings 9903.82.12, 9903.82.17 and 9903.85.68, derivative aluminum and steel articles with an ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) rate of duty under column 1 less than 15 percent, as provided for in subdivision (f) of U.S. note 16 to this subchapter
9903.05.900%Articles of aluminum, of steel or of copper or derivative aluminum or steel articles; passenger vehicles (sedans, sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, minivans and cargo vans) and light trucks; parts of passenger vehicles (sedans, sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, minivans and cargo vans) and light trucks; medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; parts of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; wood products; patented pharmaceutical articles; and semiconductor articles, as provided in subdivision (f) of U.S. note 52 to this subchapter

Import Tips

• Verify the bucket is explicitly designed for dragline machinery of heading 8430 to avoid reclassification; provide engineering specs and OEM compatibility certificates

• Check for anti-dumping duties on steel components from certain origins

• Ensure proper marking of country of origin as these are capital goods