&&The Brinks Home Security Bar is a portable door stop made of high strength 20-gauge steel. It features heavy duty high-strength steel tube construction with an outer tube and an inner tube, a non-marring top yoke, a padded foot on a pivoting ball joint, numerous adjustment holes that allow it to extend from 25 inches to 43 inches, and a steel pin that is used in the appropriate holes to create the length needed. This security doorstop bar is easy to install and adjusts to fit most sliding and hinged doors. It is designed for use in the home, at the office, or while traveling.

&&This product is a composite good composed of two steel tubes that slide one inside the other, a non-marring yoke, a padded swivel foot, and a steel pin that is used in the appropriate holes to create the length needed. The steel tubes give it the strength that secures the door and they are adjustable, allowing its use on virtually any door and giving it its broad functionality. The steel tube component gives this item its essential character and makes it an article of base metal of heading 83.02.&&&&The Explanatory Notes to heading 83.02 specifically name door stops under that heading. Further, the product is classified under subheading 8302.41 as it is suitable for buildings.&&&&You have requested classification under 8302.41.10.00 as a bar or rod type door exit device. Tariff item 8302.41.10 only covers bar or rod type door exit devices for commercial, institutional or industrial applications. The descriptions for this product direct its use towards the household products market. Also, it is not considered an “exit device” as it is used to stop a forced entry, not an exit. Therefore, it does not meet the terms of tariff item 8302.41.10. As such, it must be classified under the residual tariff item 8203.41.90.&&