USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) Scraper

Search the official US Harmonized Tariff Schedule published by the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and extract HTS codes, article descriptions, and duty rates as clean, structured JSON.

The Harmonized Tariff Schedule is the legal document that determines what import duty every product pays when it enters the United States. Whether a shipment of aluminum extrusions pays 2.6% or enters duty-free depends entirely on which 10-digit HTS line it is classified under. This Actor lets you pull every HTS line matching your product keywords — including the general duty rate, special program rates (USMCA, GSP, FTA partners), and the column-2 rate — without clicking through the USITC website line by line.

Who uses this data?

• Importers and purchasing teams estimating landed cost before placing an overseas order
• Customs brokers classifying merchandise and validating entries
• Trade compliance teams monitoring duty exposure across a product catalog
• Tariff engineering analysts comparing adjacent HTS lines for legal duty optimization
• Market researchers quantifying tariff barriers in a product category

Data fields

Field	Description
htsno	Full HTS number (up to 10 digits, e.g. 7604.29.3010)
statisticalSuffix	2-digit statistical reporting suffix
description	Official article description for the tariff line
general	General (column 1) duty rate — applies to most trading partners
special	Special duty rates under free trade agreements and preference programs
other	Column 2 duty rate (non-NTR countries)
units	Units of quantity (kg, liters, No., etc.)
indent	Indentation level in the schedule hierarchy
footnotes	Footnotes attached to the line (e.g. Section 301 references)
htsChapter	2-digit HTS chapter
searchKeyword	The keyword that matched this line
sourceUrl	Link to the same search on hts.usitc.gov

How to scrape US tariff rates

1. Open the Actor and enter one or more product keywords (e.g. lithium battery, solar panel, stainless steel).
2. Optionally adjust Max Results Per Keyword and Max Total Results.
3. Click Start and wait a few seconds.
4. Download results from the Dataset tab as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Input example

{
    "keywords": ["lithium battery", "solar panel"],
    "maxResultsPerKeyword": 500,
    "maxResults": 2000
}

Output example

{
    "htsno": "7604.29.3010",
    "statisticalSuffix": "10",
    "description": "Rods",
    "general": "5%",
    "special": "Free (A,AU,BH,CL,CO,D,E,IL,JO,KR,MA,OM,P,PA,PE,S,SG)",
    "other": "45%",
    "units": ["kg"],
    "htsChapter": "76",
    "searchKeyword": "aluminum"
}

Pricing

You pay a small fee per result plus standard Apify compute. A typical run with the default keywords returns ~2,000 tariff lines in under a minute on the smallest memory setting.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? The Actor queries the live USITC HTS REST endpoint on every run, so you always get the current revision of the schedule, including mid-year revisions.

Does it include Section 301 / 232 additional duties? Footnote references on affected lines are included in the footnotes field; the base rates shown are the column 1/2 rates from the schedule itself.

Can I search by HTS number instead of keyword? Yes — HTS number prefixes (e.g. 8501) work as keywords too.

Legal disclaimer

This Actor extracts publicly available data published by the United States International Trade Commission, a US government agency. The data is in the public domain. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the USITC. Duty rates shown are for research purposes; consult a licensed customs broker for binding classification advice.