Analysis
HTS 8414.30.40 covers not exceeding 1/4 horsepower under heading 8414 (air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling…).
Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 4.7%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8414.90.10 (of fans (including blowers) and ventilating or recycling hoods), at 4.7%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 4.7 percentage points.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.
Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333415 (Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 852 US establishments employing 101,617 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8414.10.00 | Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters; gas-tight biological safety cabinets, whether or not fitted with filters; parts thereof: vacuum pumps | 2.5% |
| 8414.20.00 | Hand- or foot-operated air pumps | 3.7% |
| 8414.30.80 | Compressors of a kind used in refrigerating equipment (including air conditioning): other | Free |
| 8414.40.00 | Air compressors mounted on a wheeled chassis for towing | 2.7% |
| 8414.51.30 | Ceiling fans for permanent installation | 4.7% |
| 8414.51.90 | Table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output not exceeding 125 W: other | 4.7% |
| 8414.59.10 | Blowers for pipe organs | Free |
| 8414.59.15 | Fans of a kind used solely or principally for cooling microprocessors, telecommunications apparatus, automatic data processing machines or units of automatic data processing machines | Free |
| 8414.59.30 | Turbochargers and superchargers | 2.3% |
| 8414.59.65 | Other: other | 2.3% |
| 8414.60.00 | Hoods having a maximum horizontal side not exceeding 120 cm | Free |
| 8414.70.00 | Gas-tight biological safety cabinets | Free |
| 8414.80.05 | Turbochargers and superchargers | Free |
| 8414.80.16 | Air compressors: other | Free |
| 8414.80.20 | Other, except parts: other compressors | Free |
| 8414.80.90 | Other, except parts: other | 3.7% |
| 8414.90.10 | Of fans (including blowers) and ventilating or recycling hoods | 4.7% |
| 8414.90.30 | Stators and rotors of goods of subheading 8414.30 | Free |
| 8414.90.41 | Of compressors: other | Free |
| 8414.90.91 | Parts: other | Free |