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What India actually pays on tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered roller a

Importers of HS 8482.20 (tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered roller a) from India actually paid 28.01% on the taxed portion of the value in 2026-06 — 27.99% across everything shipped, taxed or not. Measured from official duty receipts, not the rulebook: the statutory MFN base rate on this code is 5.8%. Over the window the rate on the taxed portion moved 5.8% → 28.01%, with the largest single step +17.4pp in 2025-09. Measured from official US duty receipts · as-of 2026-06 · confidence: measured, not modelled. The HTS base rate is 5.8% — importers actually paid 28.01%, so the trade-war overlay added 22.2 pts, measured at the border (not a summed rulebook estimate). Reproduce exactly: tariff_story(hs: "8482.20", origin: "India") · see it at trimtabist.com/tariffs

India paid 28.01% on HS 8482.20 — the schedule says 5.8% Collected rate on the taxed value — measured from US duty receipts, not the rulebook 28.01% HTS base 5.8% — the rulebook floor2023-072024-122026-06 Measured · as-of 2026-06 · Trimtab US Tariffs & Trade Ledger · trimtabist.com

HS 8482.20. The schedule base rate is 5.8%; importers from India actually paid 28.01% on the dutiable value in 2026-06 — the trade-war overlay added 22.2 points, measured at the border. Measured, not modelled.

Over the window the collected rate moved 5.8% (2023-07) → 28.01% (2026-06), largest single step +17.4pp in 2025-09.

Landed cost vs the benchmark

India's lower duty (27.99% vs 46.53%) lets it price up to 14.5% above China at the factory and still match on duty-inclusive customs cost. But on the LATEST measured prices, China actually lands cheaper — $5.49/kg vs $8.61/kg (duty in, freight out).

The trade-war measures that name India or this sector

7 Chapter-99 measures name India; 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.

9903.01.56
measure 9903.01.56
+27%
9903.01.55
measure 9903.01.55
+26%
Notice of Implementation of Additional Duties on Products of India Pursuant to the President's Executive Order
measure 9903.01.84 · Federal Register citation
+25%
9903.02.26
measure 9903.02.26
+25%
9903.02.27
measure 9903.02.27
+19%
9903.05.44
measure 9903.05.44
+10%
9903.05.45
measure 9903.05.45
+10%

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All goods from India · the whole tariff ledger · 1 CBP ruling cite this code · reproduce: tariff_story(hs: "8482.20", origin: "India") via /connect. Not customs or legal advice.

In print: “What India actually pays on tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered roller a (HS 8482.20)” — Trimtab US Trade Ledger (TT-010 Duty receipts), US Census imports-for-consumption records — trimtabist.com/tariff/848220/india