HTS heading · chapter 84
8418
Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps, other than the air conditioning machines of heading 8415; parts thereof
Analysis
Heading 8418 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps, other than the air conditioning machines of heading 8415; parts thereof. It divides into 10 six-digit subheadings and 12 eight-digit tariff lines, with 36 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
10 of its 12 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (83%) and 2 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 1.9%. The median line pays duty-free.
The largest subheadings are 8418.29 (other, 2 lines), 8418.99 (other, 2 lines), 8418.10 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8418.21 (unnamed, 1 line).
Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.
By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Major Household Appliance Manufacturing (335220), Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing (333415) and Institutional Furniture Manufacturing (337127). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8418.10.00 | Combined refrigerator-freezers, fitted with separate external doors or drawers, or combinations thereof | Free |
| 8418.21.00 | Refrigerators, household type: compression type | Free |
| 8418.29.10 | Absorption type, electrical | 1% |
| 8418.29.20 | Other: other | 1.9% |
| 8418.30.00 | Freezers of the chest type, not exceeding 800 liters capacity | Free |
| 8418.40.00 | Freezers of the upright type, not exceeding 900 liters capacity | Free |
| 8418.50.00 | Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, electric or other; heat pumps, other than the air conditioning machines of heading 8415; parts thereof: other furniture (chests, cabinets, display counters, show-cases and the like) for storage and display, incorporating refrigerating or freezing equipment | Free |
| 8418.61.01 | Heat pumps other than air conditioning machines of heading 8415 | Free |
| 8418.69.01 | Other refrigerating or freezing equipment; heat pumps: other | Free |
| 8418.91.00 | Furniture designed to receive refrigerating or freezing equipment | Free |
| 8418.99.40 | Door assemblies incorporating more than one of the following: inner panel; outer panel; insulation; hinges; handles | Free |
| 8418.99.80 | Other: other | Free |