8112.92.07.00 - Waste and scrap

This HTS category, HTS Code 8112.92.07.00, specifically covers "Waste and scrap" pertaining to the base metals listed in heading 8112, excluding beryllium, chromium, hafnium, rhenium, thallium, and cadmium. This includes discarded materials, remnants, and by-products from the working, processing, or manufacturing of vanadium, gallium, indium, niobium (columbium), and germanium. The key characteristic is that these materials are no longer in their original usable form and are intended for remelting or reprocessing into new products.

Distinguishing this category from its sibling, which also falls under "Other" in the "Unwrought; waste and scrap; powders" subheading, lies in the specific elemental composition. While both might be considered "other," HTS 8112.92.07.00 is precisely for waste and scrap of vanadium, gallium, indium, niobium, and germanium. Other "other" waste and scrap categories within the HTS would pertain to different base metals or their alloys, requiring careful differentiation based on the primary metal content.

As this is a leaf node, there are no further subcategories. Therefore, the focus for classification within this code is on accurately identifying the material as waste or scrap and ensuring it originates from the specified base metals (vanadium, gallium, indium, niobium, germanium). Exporters and importers must ensure that the material is genuinely scrap or waste and not in an unwrought or powdered form, which are classified under separate HTS codes within the broader heading 8112.92.