Import duty on semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel from Brazil

Duty on a $10,000 entry of HTS 7207.12.00.50

Priced against measures version 2026-09-03. Estimates for planning only — U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines the final duty on your entry.

How much is the import duty on semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel from Brazil?

A shipment of semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel classified under HTS 7207.12.00 and made in Brazil currently pays a total of 50.00% in U.S. import duty. That total is built from two lines, not one: the Column 1 general rate of Free (this subheading is duty-free under the normal tariff), plus a Section 232 metals duty of 50.00% charged under Chapter 99. Customers who look up only the base rate in the tariff schedule and stop there are under-budgeting this shipment by 50.00%.

The duty stack, line by line

U.S. duty on this code is assembled from separate legal instruments, each with its own authority. Here is what each line on the entry is:

The base line is HTS 7207.12.00.50 itself at Free, the ordinary most-favoured-nation rate that applies to every origin with normal trade relations with the United States.

HTS 9903.82.02 adds 50.00% under Section 232, the national-security tariff on aluminium, steel and copper articles — it follows the article rather than the country, so changing origin does not remove it (engine label: "Section 232 metals Annex I-A (50%)").

Worked example: a $10,000 shipment

Take one ocean shipment of semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel with an entered value of $10,000 — the customs value of the goods, before freight and insurance. At 50.00%, the duty is $5,000.00. Of that, $0.00 is the Column 1 duty and $5,000.00 is Chapter 99 additional duty. On top of the duty, the entry attracts a merchandise processing fee of $34.64 and, because it arrives by vessel, a harbor maintenance fee of $12.50. Duty and fees together come to $5,047.14, and the engine puts the landed cost of the goods at $15,047.14.

These are ad valorem rates, so a $100,000 entry of the same goods carries about $50,000 in duty, though MPF is capped per entry. Run your own value, entry date and HTS code through the tariff simulator for the same calculation against the same engine.

What changed, and when

The rate here has been stable across the period we can price: an entry dated 15 October 2025 pays the same 50.00% that applies today. Stability is not a promise — Chapter 99 lists are amended by notice, sometimes with days of warning — but this subheading has not been a moving target from Brazil.

An entry dated 15 May 2026 prices at 50.00%, the same total as today. The Section 122 balance-of-payments surcharge in force over that window (24 February to 23 July 2026, since expired) did not attach to this code.

MPF, HMF and what else lands on the entry

Duty is not the whole bill to Customs. The merchandise processing fee is ad valorem with a statutory floor and ceiling per entry — $34.64 on this $10,000 example. The harbor maintenance fee is charged on vessel arrivals only, $12.50 here; the same shipment flown in would pay no HMF.

Not in any of these figures: antidumping and countervailing duties, excise taxes, quota charges, bond costs, and the freight and brokerage that make up the rest of your landed cost. AD/CVD is worth checking before you commit to a supplier — it is assessed on the producer and exporter, not just on the HTS code, and it can dwarf the tariff.

U.S. imports of 7207.12.00 from Brazil

Between March and July 2026 the U.S. imported $903 million under HTS 7207.12.00 from the 55 origins in this dataset; $419 million of it — 46.4% — came from Brazil, making Brazil the dominant supplier on this subheading. The largest were Brazil (46.4%), Vietnam (15.7%), Canada (11.5%), Indonesia (9.1%) and Mexico (8.5%).

Census also reports duty actually collected: entries of HTS 7207.12.00.50 from Brazil paid an average effective duty of 46.97% of value over those months. That is below the 50.00% priced here, which usually means part of that volume entered before the current measures took effect, or entered under a preference, an exclusion or a different 10-digit line. Treat it as a sanity check on your own numbers, not a forecast of your entry.

If you are moving this cargo rather than just pricing it, our Brazil to USA shipping route page covers transit times, ports and documentation on the lane itself, and our Steel Logistics guide covers packing, classification and handling for this cargo type.

Planning around this number

Classification drives this: the page prices HTS 7207.12.00.50, the largest 10-digit line under 7207.12.00 for Brazil by import value, and a neighbouring line in the same subheading can carry different Chapter 99 exposure. Entry date matters as much as origin — the gap between the dates above is a change in law, not in your goods.

Airlift USA does not hold a U.S. customs broker licence — customs entries are handled through our licensed broker network, and the broker of record makes the classification and origin calls. These figures are estimates for planning, produced by the same engine behind our tariff simulator; U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines the final duty on your entry.

The same shipment, priced on three entry dates

What HTS 7207.12.00.50 actually covers

Semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel > Containing by weight less than 0.25 percent of carbon > Other, of rectangular (other than square) cross section > Having a width measuring at least four times the thickness

Questions importers ask about HTS 7207.12.00 from Brazil