What is the HTS code and US import duty rate for a bicycle?

Answered byTariff Code & Duty Lookup API: US HTS and UK Tariff

Price$0.005 per lookup or search

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Bicycles fall under HTS heading 8712.00; the general duty is 11% for small-wheel bicycles (8712.00.15) and 5.5% for some larger types, per the USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule. A description search returns up to 5 candidate codes with general, column 2 and special-program rates and a warning that a candidate is not a classification.

Tool input

{
  "query": "bicycle",
  "market": "US"
}

Ask it from an AI agent (MCP)

Add the Apify MCP server with this tool to your MCP client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ...); it signs you in with OAuth or Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>.

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=bosco_labs/tariff-lookup

Then ask:

Use the bosco_labs/tariff-lookup tool to answer: What is the HTS code and US import duty rate for a bicycle?

Call the Apify API

Runs the Actor and returns the rows in one request, billed to your Apify account ($0.005 per lookup or search).

curl https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bosco_labs~tariff-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "bicycle", "market": "US"}'

Call the Bosco Labs HTTP API

Bosco Labs HTTP API (beta): same input and rows, $0.005 per code lookup or code search (US or UK) from prepaid credits. Get a key with a $0.50 free trial, or send the same call without a key and pay per call in USDC via x402 (no account).

curl https://api.boscolabs.dev/v1/tariff-lookup \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOSCO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "bicycle", "market": "US"}'

Example output

Snapshot taken 2026-11-06, source links in each row. First 1 of 5 rows (snapshot runs stop at 5 rows); long values shortened.

[
  {
    "schema_version": "1",
    "match_type": "search_candidate",
    "query": "bicycle",
    "candidate_rank": 1,
    "market": "US",
    "code": "87120015",
    "code_formatted": "8712.00.15",
    "description": "Bicycles having both wheels not exceeding 63.5 cm in diameter",
    "hierarchy": [
      {
        "code": "8712.00",
        "description": "Bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles), not motorized:"
      },
      {
        "code": "8712.00.15",
        "description": "Bicycles having both wheels not exceeding 63.5 cm in diameter"
      }
    ],
    "declarable": null,
    "general_rate": "11%",
    "rate_line": "8712.00.15",
    "column_2_rate": "30%",
    "special_rates_text": "Free (A+,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG) 5.5% (JP)",
    "preferential_rates": [
      {
        "rate": "Free",
        "applies_to": [
          "A+",
          "AU",
          "BH",
          "... 14 more"
        ]
      },
      {
        "rate": "5.5%",
        "applies_to": [
          "JP"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "preferential_rates_total": 2,
    "additional_duties": [],
    "temporary_reductions": [
      {
        "reference": "9902.17.07",
        "rate": "Free",
        "description": "Bicycles each with no seat, no seat tube and no seat stay, designed to be pedaled by a user in a standing position only, such bicycles having both wheels not..."
      }
    ],
    "vat": [],
    "units": [],
    "origin_country": null,
    "edition": "2026 HTS Revision 22",
    "source_url": "https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=8712.00.15",
    "api_url": "https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/exportList?from=8712&to=8712.99.99.99&format=JSON",
    "attribution": "Source: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), U.S. International Trade Commission, hts.usitc.gov. A U.S. Government work, not covered by cop...",
    "...": "5 more fields"
  }
]

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