Import duty on mobile cranes from Germany

Duty on a $10,000 entry of HTS 8705.10.00.50

An estimate for planning only: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determines the final duty on your entry. Priced against tariff measures version 2026-10-06.

How much is the import duty on mobile cranes from Germany?

A shipment of mobile cranes classified under HTS 8705.10.00 and made in Germany currently pays a total of 25.00% 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 duty on medium and heavy trucks 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 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 8705.10.00.50 itself at Free, the ordinary most-favored-nation rate that applies to every origin with normal trade relations with the United States.

HTS 9903.74.01 adds 25.00% under the Section 232 action on medium- and heavy-duty trucks and their parts — the engine's line reads "Section 232 medium/heavy-duty vehicles (25%)".

Worked example: a $10,000 shipment

Take one ocean shipment of mobile cranes with an entered value of $10,000 — the customs value of the goods, before freight and insurance. At 25.00%, the duty is $2,500.00. Of that, $0.00 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 $2,547.14, and the engine puts the landed cost of the goods at $12,547.14.

These are ad valorem rates, so a $100,000 entry of the same goods carries about $25,000 in duty, though MPF is capped per entry. Run your own value, entry date and HTS code through the import duty calculator 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 25.00%, higher by 25.00 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 program 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.

An entry dated 15 May 2026 prices at 25.00%, 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 8705.10.00 from Germany

Between March and July 2026 the U.S. imported $289 million under HTS 8705.10.00 from the 55 origins in this dataset; $266 million of it — 92.0% — came from Germany, making Germany the dominant supplier on this subheading. The largest were Germany (92.0%), Japan (7.0%), the Netherlands (0.5%), Mexico (0.3%) and China (0.1%).

Census also reports duty actually collected: entries of HTS 8705.10.00.50 from Germany paid an average effective duty of 17.22% of value over those months. That is below the 25.00% 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.

Our Automotive Parts & Accessories guide covers packing, classification and handling for this cargo type in more depth than a duty page can.

Planning around this number

Classification drives this: the page prices HTS 8705.10.00.50, the largest 10-digit line under 8705.10.00 for Germany by import value, and a neighboring 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 license — 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 import duty calculator; U.S. Customs and Border Protection determines the final duty on your entry.

How the duty on this shipment changed by entry date

What HTS 8705.10.00.50 covers

Special purpose motor vehicles, other than those principally designed for the transport of persons or goods (for example, wreckers, mobile cranes, fire fighting vehicles, concrete mixers, road sweepers, spraying vehicles, mobile workshops, mobile radiological units) > Mobile cranes > Other

Rates can differ from one 10-digit line to the next, so confirm your classification with a licensed customs broker before you rely on this figure. Other 10-digit lines under 8705.10.00: 8705.10.00.10, 8705.10.00.50.

Common questions about duty on HTS 8705.10.00 from Germany