Analysis
HTS 8414.59.65 covers other: other under heading 8414 (air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.3%. The costliest confusion would be with 8414.59.15 (fans of a kind used solely or principally for cooling…) at duty-free, a difference of 2.3 points on the customs value.
The general duty rate is 2.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (64th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $230 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 15.2 times the general rate.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Automotive Products Trade Act, the Bahrain FTA, the civil aircraft agreement, and 14 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.3%. 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.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |