Import duty on passenger transports from Brazil

Duty on a $10,000 entry of HTS 8802.40.01.40

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 passenger transports from Brazil?

A shipment of passenger transports classified under HTS 8802.40.01 and made in Brazil currently pays a total of 37.50% in U.S. import duty. That total stacks 3 separate lines: the Column 1 general rate of Free (duty-free under the normal tariff), plus a Section 301 duty of 25.00% and the Section 301 forced-labor action of 12.50%. Additional duties compound on the same entered value, so the arithmetic is a sum of rates rather than a rate applied to a rate.

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 8802.40.01.40 itself at Free, the ordinary most-favoured-nation rate that applies to every origin with normal trade relations with the United States.

HTS 9903.05.01 adds 25.00% under a Section 301 action — the engine reports this line as "Section 301 Brazil (25%)". Section 301 duties are imposed by USTR notice and follow the origin of the goods, so they move with sourcing rather than with the article.

HTS 9903.05.27 adds 12.50% under the Section 301 forced-labor action — in force since 24 July 2026 across 60 economies including Brazil, charged on the entered value on top of the Column 1 rate and following the origin of the goods rather than the route they travel.

Worked example: a $10,000 shipment

Take one ocean shipment of passenger transports with an entered value of $10,000 — the customs value of the goods, before freight and insurance. At 37.50%, the duty is $3,750.00. Of that, $0.00 is the Column 1 duty and $3,750.00 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 $3,797.14, and the engine puts the landed cost of the goods at $13,797.14.

These are ad valorem rates, so a $100,000 entry of the same goods carries about $37,500 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 0% — the Column 1 rate alone, with no Chapter 99 line. Today it pays 37.50%, higher by 37.50 percentage points.

One thing that is often confused with this: IEEPA tariffs are not part of the calculation. The Supreme Court ruled against the IEEPA programme on 20 February 2026, and this engine applies no IEEPA duty on any entry date. Every line above is Section 301, 232, 201 or 122 — separate statutes, unaffected by that ruling.

Priced at 15 May 2026 the same entry would have paid 0%. The Section 122 balance-of-payments surcharge that ran from 24 February to 23 July 2026 did not attach to this code, so the difference between that date and today comes from measures introduced since, not from the surcharge expiring.

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 8802.40.01 from Brazil

Between March and July 2026 the U.S. imported $5.4 billion under HTS 8802.40.01 from the 55 origins in this dataset; $417 million of it — 7.8% — came from Brazil, making Brazil a mid-sized supplier on this subheading. The largest were France (37.2%), Canada (28.9%), Germany (26.0%), Brazil (7.8%) and Sweden (0.0%).

Census also reports duty actually collected: entries of HTS 8802.40.01.40 from Brazil paid an average effective duty of 0.00% of value over those months. That is below the 37.50% 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 Heavy Machinery & Industrial Equipment guide covers packing, classification and handling for this cargo type.

Planning around this number

Classification drives this: the page prices HTS 8802.40.01.40, the largest 10-digit line under 8802.40.01 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 8802.40.01.40 actually covers

Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, airplanes, except unmanned aircraft of heading 8806); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles > Airplanes and other aircraft, of an unladen weight exceeding 15,000 kg > New > Other > Passenger transports

Other 10-digit lines under 8802.40.01: 8802.40.01.40, 8802.40.01.90. 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 8802.40.01 from Brazil