Analysis
HTS 8422.11.00 covers of the household type under heading 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to duty-free. Compared with 8422.90.91 (parts: other), which pays duty-free, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.4 percentage points.
The general duty rate is 2.4% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (65th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $240 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.
The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 14.6 times the general rate.
Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 2.4%. 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 335220 (Major Household Appliance Manufacturing), an industry of 180 US establishments employing 47,877 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8422.19.00 | Dishwashing machines: other | Free |
| 8422.20.00 | Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers | Free |
| 8422.30.11 | Can-sealing machines | Free |
| 8422.30.91 | Machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labeling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; machinery for aerating beverages: other | Free |
| 8422.40.11 | Machines for packaging pipe tobacco; machines for wrapping candy; machines for wrapping cigarette packages; and combination candy cutting and wrapping machines | Free |
| 8422.40.91 | Other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery): other | Free |
| 8422.90.02 | Water containment chambers for the dishwashing machines of subheading 8422.11 and other parts of dishwashing machines of the household type incorporating water containment chambers | Free |
| 8422.90.04 | Door assemblies for the dishwashing machines of subheading 8422.11 | Free |
| 8422.90.06 | Of dishwashing machines: other | Free |
| 8422.90.11 | Of can-sealing machines | Free |
| 8422.90.21 | Of machines for packaging pipe tobacco, wrapping candy or wrapping cigarette packages, and of combination candy cutting and wrapping machines | Free |
| 8422.90.91 | Parts: other | Free |