Analysis
HTS 8421.19.00 covers centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: other under heading 8421 (centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.5%. Compared with 8421.99.01 (parts: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 1.3 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 1.3% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (61st percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $130 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 19.2 times the general rate.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the civil aircraft agreement, the Chile FTA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 1.3%. 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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 3,460 US establishments employing 158,898 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8421.11.00 | Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: cream separators | Free |
| 8421.12.00 | Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: clothes-dryers | Free |
| 8421.21.00 | For filtering or purifying water | Free |
| 8421.22.00 | For filtering or purifying beverages other than water | Free |
| 8421.23.00 | Oil or fuel filters for internal combustion engines | 2.5% |
| 8421.29.00 | Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for liquids: other | Free |
| 8421.31.00 | Intake air filters for internal combustion engines | 2.5% |
| 8421.32.00 | Catalytic converters or particulate filters, whether or not combined, for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combustion engines | Free |
| 8421.39.01 | Filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus for gases: other | Free |
| 8421.91.20 | Drying chambers for the clothes-dryers of subheading 8421.12 and other parts of clothes-dryers incorporating drying chambers | Free |
| 8421.91.40 | Furniture designed to receive the clothes-dryers of subheading 8421.12 | Free |
| 8421.91.60 | Of centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers: other | Free |
| 8421.99.01 | Parts: other | Free |