7616.10.10.00 - Nails, tacks and staples 🖩

This category, HTS 7616.10.10.00, specifically encompasses nails, tacks, and staples manufactured from aluminum. These are typically fastening devices characterized by a pointed end designed to be driven into a surface, securing two or more items together. The defining feature for inclusion here is the material composition, which must be aluminum, and their form as common nails, smaller tacks for upholstery or display, and stapled fasteners used in office supplies or industrial applications.

It is important to distinguish this category from its siblings. While all fall under "Other articles of aluminum," HTS 7616.10.30.00 covers aluminum rivets, which are permanent fasteners inserted through pre-drilled holes and then deformed to create a joint. Similarly, HTS 7616.10.50.00 includes aluminum cotters and cotter pins, which are split pins designed to secure components by passing through a hole and spreading the ends. This current category focuses on the distinct types of fasteners known as nails, tacks, and staples, which do not fit the definitions of rivets or cotters/cotter pins.

As a leaf node, HTS 7616.10.10.00 does not have further subdivisions. Therefore, classification within this code relies solely on confirming the article's identity as a nail, tack, or staple and its composition of aluminum. Items that are structurally similar but serve a different primary function, such as small decorative pins or specialized construction fasteners made from other base metals, would be classified elsewhere.