Analysis
HTS 8414.70.00 covers gas-tight biological safety cabinets under heading 8414 (air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 4.7%. Compared with 8414.90.10 (of fans (including blowers) and ventilating or recycling hoods), which pays 4.7%, a misclassification either way moves 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.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. 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 333413 (Industrial and Commercial Fan and Blower and Air Purification Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 479 US establishments employing 29,098 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
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% |
| 8414.30.40 | Not exceeding 1/4 horsepower | Free |
| 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 |
| 8414.80.05 | 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 |