8413.70

Analysis

Subheading 8413.70 covers other centrifugal pumps, within heading 8413. The first six digits are shared by every country that uses the Harmonized System, so this part of the code is the same in the US, UK and EU schedules; the 2 US tariff lines below it are national.

Every one of its 2 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the subheading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.

The US splits it as follows: 8413.70.10 for stock pumps imported for use with machines for making cellulosic… (duty-free) and 8413.70.20 for other centrifugal pumps: other (duty-free).

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Measuring, Dispensing, and Other Pumping Equipment Manufacturing (333914). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.

Goods only reach 8413.70 once they fall within heading 8413 (pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators; part…). Under General Rule 6, subheadings are then compared only with others at the same level, so a product is matched against its siblings, not against lines elsewhere in the chapter.