HTS tariff line · chapter 82
8209.00.00
Plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets
Analysis
HTS 8209.00.00 covers plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets under heading 8209 (plates, sticks, tips and the like for tools, unmounted, of cermets). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 4.6%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.
The general duty rate is 4.6% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 82 (66th percentile of 95 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $460 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 60%, 13.0 times the general rate.
For statistics it divides in two: 8209.00.00.30 for of sintered metal carbides and 8209.00.00.60 for of other cermets. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
It is the only US line under subheading 8209.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 8209.00 points straight here.