Analysis
HTS 8422.20.00 covers machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers under heading 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers…).
Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.4%. The costliest confusion would be with 8422.11.00 (of the household type) at 2.4%, a difference of 2.4 points on the customs value.
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.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333993 (Packaging Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 523 US establishments employing 24,451 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
Every edition we compared, from Jan 2023 to Oct 2026 (Rev. 22), shows the same general rate of Free.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8422.11.00 | Of the household type | 2.4% |
| 8422.19.00 | Dishwashing machines: other | 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 |