9817.00.90.40

10-digit statistical code

Pigs, ingots or billets

This is the specific 10-digit code used for customs filing. Enter it on your CBP entry summary (form 7501) or give it to your customs broker exactly as shown. Duty is free for most countries.

Duty rates

Duty rates are legally set at the 8-digit level, so this code takes its rates from 9817.00.90. Duty-free under this rate column.

Duty rates for HTS 9817.00.90.40
Rate	Value and what it means
General rate (Column 1)	FreeColumn 1 general Applies to most trading partners — the standard "normal trade relations" rate.
Special rate (Column 1)	—Trade programs The country letters in parentheses are free trade agreement and preference programs. If your goods qualify under one of them, that rate replaces the general rate.
Column 2 rate	FreeNon-NTR Reserved for the small group of countries that do not have normal trade relations with the US (currently Cuba, North Korea, Russia and Belarus). Almost no importer uses this column — if you are shipping from anywhere else, ignore it.
Unit of quantity	— How CBP expects the quantity to be reported on the entry summary.

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Where this sits in the schedule

The tariff schedule is read top-down: each line inherits the wording of the categories above it.

Unwrought metal including remelt scrap ingot (except copper, lead, zinc and tungsten) in the form of pigs, ingots or billets (a) which are defective or damaged, or have been produced from melted down metal waste and scrap for convenience in handling and transportation without sweetening, alloying, fluxing or deliberate purifying, and (b) which cannot be commercially used without re-manufacture; relaying or rerolling rails; and articles of metal (except articles of lead, of zinc or of tungsten, and not including metal-bearing materials provided for in section VI, chapter 26 or subheading 8549.11, 8549.12, 8549.13, 8549.14, 8549.19 and not including unwrought metal provided for in chapters 72-81) to be used in remanufacture by melting or to be processed by shredding, shearing, compacting or similar processing which renders them fit only for the recovery of the metal content: > Other

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Source: USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule, 2026 Basic Edition, Revision 16. Rate text is reproduced verbatim from the official export; category paths and duty estimates are derived.

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