7304.49.00.60 - Other 🖩

This classification, HTS Code 7304.49.00.60, encompasses "Other" seamless tubes, pipes, and hollow profiles of stainless steel, with a circular cross-section, that do not meet the specific criteria for other classifications within this subheading. These are essentially stainless steel tubular products of a circular shape that are not primarily designated for use in boilers, superheaters, heat exchangers, condensers, refining furnaces, or feedwater heaters. The "other" designation signifies a residual category for stainless steel seamless circular hollows not otherwise specified.

Distinguishing this category from its sibling, 7304.49.00.45, is crucial. The sibling category specifically covers stainless steel seamless circular tubes and pipes that are "Suitable for use in boilers, superheaters, heat exchangers, condensers, refining furnaces and feedwater heaters." Therefore, HTS 7304.49.00.60 applies to those stainless steel seamless circular hollows whose intended purpose or design does not align with these specialized heat transfer or high-temperature industrial applications.

As this is a leaf node in the HTS classification structure, there are no further subcategories. All goods falling under this specific HTS code are consolidated here, provided they are seamless tubes, pipes, or hollow profiles of stainless steel with a circular cross-section and are not otherwise classified within the broader categories of section XV, chapter 73, or the more specific subheadings of 7304.49.00. Practical classification will rely on the absence of specific material composition mandates beyond stainless steel, specialized end-use design considerations that would place them in the sibling category, and the fundamental characteristic of being a seamless, circular iron or steel tube or pipe.