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Steel bar, rod, and wire: statutory & effective tariff rates

Statutory HTS duty rates for 49 steel bar, rod, and wire tariff lines (MFN Free), from USITC. Effective rate May 2026: 34.54%; monthly history since 2014.

Statutory rates from the schedule

  • Carbon steel bar, wire rod, angles, shapes, and drawn wire — machining blanks and structural stock. This family covers HTS headings 7213, 7214, 7215, 7216, 7217: 49 eight-digit rate lines with MFN (column 1, general) rates of Free in the 2026 schedule.
  • Chapter 99 flags on individual lines mark Section 301/232 overlay provisions (e.g. 9903.90.09) that apply on top of the MFN column.

What importers actually paid

  • Latest month on record (2026-05): 34.54% effective on $348.8M of imports, versus 21.08% in the same month a year earlier. The monthly archive holds 149 observations from 2014-01 through 2026-05.
  • In 2025, U.S. imports for consumption in this family totaled $2.9B in customs value and paid $647.4M in calculated duties: an effective tariff rate of 22.09%. The effective rate captures Section 301/232 overlays, exclusions, and special-program use that the statutory column cannot.
  • A year earlier the effective rate was 3.05%, so the duty burden rose 19.0 points.
  • Top source countries in 2025: Canada ($579.3M at 19.8%), Mexico ($417.4M at 14.57%), South Korea ($197.9M at 25.4%), Vietnam ($197.6M at 17.47%), India ($187.7M at 7.77%).

Representative rate lines

  • 7213.10.00.00: Concrete reinforcing bars and rods — MFN Free
  • 7213.20.00: Other, of free-cutting steel — MFN Free
  • 7213.91.30: Not tempered, not treated and not partly manufactured — MFN Free
  • 7213.91.45.00: Containing by weight 0.6 percent or more of carbon — MFN Free
  • 7213.91.60.00: Other — MFN Free
  • 7213.99.00: Other — MFN Free
  • 7214.10.00.00: Forged — MFN Free
  • 7214.20.00.00: Concrete reinforcing bars and rods — MFN Free

About this data

  • Reference statistics derived from USITC published data. Not a customs ruling; verify rates with a licensed customs broker before relying on them.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.