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What Brazil actually pays on tamping machines and road rollers

Importers of HS 8429.40 (tamping machines and road rollers) from Brazil actually paid 25% on the taxed portion of the value in 2026-06 — 25% across everything shipped, taxed or not. Measured from official duty receipts, not the rulebook: the statutory MFN base rate on this code is Free. Over the window the rate on the taxed portion moved null% → 25%, with the largest single step +31.7pp in 2025-09. Measured from official US duty receipts · as-of 2026-06 · confidence: measured, not modelled. The HTS base rate is Free — importers actually paid 25%, so the trade-war overlay added 25 pts, measured at the border (not a summed rulebook estimate). Reproduce exactly: tariff_story(hs: "8429.40", origin: "Brazil") · see it at trimtabist.com/tariffs

Brazil paid 25% on HS 8429.40 — the schedule says Free Collected rate on the taxed value — measured from US duty receipts, not the rulebook 25% HTS base Free — the rulebook floor2025-042025-112026-06 Measured · as-of 2026-06 · Trimtab US Tariffs & Trade Ledger · trimtabist.com

HS 8429.40. The schedule base rate is Free; importers from Brazil actually paid 25% on the dutiable value in 2026-06 — the trade-war overlay added 25 points, measured at the border. Measured, not modelled.

Over the window the collected rate moved % (2023-07) → 25% (2026-06), largest single step +31.7pp in 2025-09.

The trade-war measures that name Brazil or this sector

8 Chapter-99 measures name Brazil; scope mapping is partial (several annexes are PDFs) — absence never means exemption. They do not sum, and some are product-specific — the collected rate above is the composed truth.

9903.01.77
measure 9903.01.77
+40%
Adoption and Procedures of the Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariff Inclusions Process
measure 9903.02.01 · Federal Register citation
+40%
9903.02.10
measure 9903.02.10
+25%
9903.05.01
measure 9903.05.01
+25%
9903.05.20
measure 9903.05.20
+12.5%
9903.05.27
measure 9903.05.27
+12.5%
9903.02.09
measure 9903.02.09
+10%
9903.05.28
measure 9903.05.28
+10%

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All goods from Brazil · the whole tariff ledger · reproduce: tariff_story(hs: "8429.40", origin: "Brazil") via /connect. Not customs or legal advice.

In print: “What Brazil actually pays on tamping machines and road rollers (HS 8429.40)” — Trimtab US Trade Ledger (TT-010 Duty receipts), US Census imports-for-consumption records — trimtabist.com/tariff/842940/brazil