8422

Analysis

Heading 8422 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labeling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles…. It divides into 6 six-digit subheadings and 13 eight-digit tariff lines, with 33 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

12 of its 13 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (92%) and 1 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.4%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8422.90 (parts, 6 lines), 8422.30 (machinery for filling, closing, sealing or…, 2 lines), 8422.40 (other packing or wrapping machinery (including…, 2 lines) and 8422.11 (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 Packaging Machinery Manufacturing (333993), Major Household Appliance Manufacturing (335220) and Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.