Analysis
HTS 8422.30.11 covers can-sealing machines under heading 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.4%. Compared with 8422.11.00 (of the household type), which pays 2.4%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.4 percentage points.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 30% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 30% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333993 (Packaging Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 523 US establishments employing 24,451 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8422.11.00 | Of the household type | 2.4% |
| 8422.19.00 | Dishwashing machines: other | Free |
| 8422.20.00 | Machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers | 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 |