8208.30.00

Analysis

HTS 8208.30.00 covers for kitchen appliances or for machines used by the food industry, 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: 8208.30.00.30 for for meat-slicing, meat-cutting or meat-chopping machines and 8208.30.00.60 for other (including parts). Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 41% of the 95 tariff lines in chapter 82 that are also free. 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 332216 (Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing), an industry of 775 US establishments employing 25,058 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.