8422.40.91

Analysis

HTS 8422.40.91 covers other packing or wrapping machinery (including heat-shrink wrapping machinery): other under heading 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 2.4%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8422.11.00 (of the household type), at 2.4%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 2.4 percentage points.

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.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

The ten-digit suffixes separate strapping machines, machines for case and tray forming…, machines for shrink film and heat… and machines for wrapping. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.