Analysis
HTS 8208.10.00 covers for metal working, and parts thereof under heading 8208 (knives and cutting blades, for machines or for mechanical appliances, and base metal…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8208.10.00.30 for over 30.5 cm in length, for metal shearing machines or over… and 8208.10.00.60 for other (including parts). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 41% of the 95 tariff lines in chapter 82, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333515 (Cutting Tool and Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing), an industry of 1,060 US establishments employing 23,991 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8208.20.00 | For wood working, and parts thereof | Free |
| 8208.30.00 | For kitchen appliances or for machines used by the food industry, and parts thereof | Free |
| 8208.40.30 | For agricultural, horticultural or forestry machines, and parts thereof: lawnmower blades | Free |
| 8208.40.60 | For agricultural, horticultural or forestry machines, and parts thereof: other (including parts) | Free |
| 8208.90.30 | For shoe machinery | Free |
| 8208.90.60 | Other: other (including parts) | Free |