8411.81.80

Analysis

HTS 8411.81.80 covers of a power not exceeding 5,000 kW: other under heading 8411 (turbojets, turbopropellers and other gas turbines, and parts thereof). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.5%. The costliest confusion would be with 8411.99.10 (cast-iron parts, not advanced beyond cleaning, and machined only for…) at duty-free, a difference of 2.5 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 2.5% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (68th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $250 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

For statistics it divides in two: 8411.81.80.10 for industrial turbines of a kind described in statistical note… and 8411.81.80.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 14.0 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.5%. 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.