8703.40.00.55 - Motor homes

This HTS category, 8703.40.00.55, specifically classifies motor homes. Motor homes are self-propelled vehicles that combine transportation and living accommodations, featuring integrated facilities such as sleeping quarters, cooking areas, and bathrooms, designed for recreational travel and temporary habitation.

This classification is distinguished from its sibling category, 8703.40.00.50, which covers specialized vehicles like ambulances, hearses, and prison vans. While all vehicles within heading 8703 are primarily designed for the transport of persons and employ both spark-ignition internal combustion engines and electric motors for propulsion, motor homes are distinct in their function as mobile living spaces, whereas the sibling category focuses on vehicles for transporting specific groups of people or specialized functions.

As this is a leaf node within the HTS classification system, there are no further subcategories under 8703.40.00.55. Therefore, the classification process for motor homes under this code relies on fulfilling all preceding criteria, including being a motor vehicle for the transport of persons, having both a spark-ignition internal combustion engine and an electric motor for propulsion, being capable of being charged by plugging into an external source of electric power, and having an engine cylinder capacity exceeding 3,000 cc, in addition to fitting the definition of a motor home.