Import duty on cooking ware from China

Duty on a $10,000 entry of HTS 7323.93.00.45

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 cooking ware from China?

A shipment of cooking ware classified under HTS 7323.93.00 and made in China currently pays a total of 27.00% in U.S. import duty. That total is built from two lines, not one: the Column 1 general rate of 2%, plus a Section 232 metals duty of 25.00% 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 25.00%.

The schedule also lists a special (preferential) rate for this subheading — Free (A*,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG). A preference applies only if the goods meet the named programme's rules of origin and the claim is made on the entry, and it never waives a Chapter 99 additional duty. Whether your goods qualify is a question for a licensed customs broker.

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 7323.93.00.45 itself at 2%, the ordinary most-favoured-nation rate that applies to every origin with normal trade relations with the United States.

HTS 9903.82.09 adds 25.00% 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-B (25%)").

Worked example: a $10,000 shipment

Take one ocean shipment of cooking ware with an entered value of $10,000 — the customs value of the goods, before freight and insurance. At 27.00%, the duty is $2,700.00. Of that, $200.00 is the Column 1 duty and $2,500.00 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 $2,747.14, and the engine puts the landed cost of the goods at $12,747.14.

These are ad valorem rates, so a $100,000 entry of the same goods carries about $27,000 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 on this code has moved. Priced with an entry date of 15 October 2025, the same shipment would have paid 52.00%. Today it pays 27.00%, lower by 25.00 percentage points.

An entry dated 15 May 2026 prices at 27.00%, 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 7323.93.00 from China

Between March and July 2026 the U.S. imported $520 million under HTS 7323.93.00 from the 55 origins in this dataset; $358 million of it — 68.8% — came from China, making China the dominant supplier on this subheading. The largest were China (68.8%), India (10.6%), Italy (6.9%), Taiwan (2.9%) and Thailand (2.9%).

Census also reports duty actually collected: entries of HTS 7323.93.00.45 from China paid an average effective duty of 25.29% of value over those months. That is below the 27.00% 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 China 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 7323.93.00.45, the largest 10-digit line under 7323.93.00 for China 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 7323.93.00.45 actually covers

Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof, of iron or steel; iron or steel wool; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like, of iron or steel > Other > Of stainless steel > Cooking and kitchen ware > Other > Cooking ware > Other

Other 10-digit lines under 7323.93.00: 7323.93.00.15, 7323.93.00.45, 7323.93.00.60, 7323.93.00.80. Rates can differ line by line — confirm your classification with a licensed customs broker before you rely on this figure.

Questions importers ask about HTS 7323.93.00 from China