HTS heading · chapter 84
8419
Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vaporizing, condensing or cooling, other than machinery or plant of a kind used for domestic purposes; instantaneous or storage water heaters, nonelectric; parts thereof
Analysis
Heading 8419 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), for the treatment of materials by a process involving a change of temperature…. It divides into 14 six-digit subheadings and 26 eight-digit tariff lines, with 39 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
22 of its 26 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (85%) and 4 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 4.2%. The median line pays duty-free.
The largest subheadings are 8419.90 (parts, 6 lines), 8419.89 (other, 3 lines), 8419.33 (lyophilisation apparatus, freeze drying units and…, 2 lines) and 8419.35 (other, for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard, 2 lines).
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 All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (33399), Major Household Appliance Manufacturing (335220) and Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing (339113). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8419.11.00 | Instantaneous gas water heaters | Free |
| 8419.12.00 | Solar water heaters | Free |
| 8419.19.01 | Instantaneous or storage water heaters, nonelectric: other | Free |
| 8419.20.00 | Medical, surgical or laboratory sterilizers | Free |
| 8419.33.10 | For agricultural products | Free |
| 8419.33.50 | Lyophilisation apparatus, freeze drying units and spray dryers: other | Free |
| 8419.34.00 | Dryers: other, for agricultural products | Free |
| 8419.35.10 | Other, for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard: for wood | Free |
| 8419.35.50 | Other, for wood, paper pulp, paper or paperboard: other | Free |
| 8419.39.02 | Dryers: other | Free |
| 8419.40.00 | Distilling or rectifying plant | Free |
| 8419.50.10 | Brazed aluminum plate-fin heat exchangers | 4.2% |
| 8419.50.50 | Heat exchange units: other | Free |
| 8419.60.10 | Machinery containing brazed aluminum plate-fin heat exchangers | 4.2% |
| 8419.60.50 | Machinery for liquefying air or other gases: other | Free |
| 8419.81.50 | Cooking stoves, ranges and ovens | Free |
| 8419.81.90 | For making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food: other | Free |
| 8419.89.10 | For making paper pulp, paper or paperboard | Free |
| 8419.89.60 | Molten-salt-cooled acrylic acid reactors | Free |
| 8419.89.95 | Other: other | 4.2% |
| 8419.90.10 | Of instantaneous or storage water heaters | Free |
| 8419.90.20 | Of machinery and plant for making paper pulp, paper or paperboard | Free |
| 8419.90.30 | Of heat exchange units | Free |
| 8419.90.50 | Of molten-salt-cooled acrylic acid reactors; of medical, surgical or laboratory sterilizers | Free |
| 8419.90.85 | Of electromechanical tools for working in the hand with self-contained electric motor | Free |
| 8419.90.95 | Other: other | 4% |