Analysis
HTS 8419.81.90 covers for making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food: other under heading 8419 (machinery, plant or laboratory equipment, whether or not electrically heated (excluding…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 4.2%. The costliest confusion would be with 8419.89.95 (other: other) at 4.2%, a difference of 4.2 points on the customs value.
For statistics it divides in two: 8419.81.90.40 for of a type used in restaurants, hotels or similar locations and 8419.81.90.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84 that are also free. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring 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 |
| 8419.89.10 | 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% |