Analysis
HTS 8422.90.91 covers parts: other under heading 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 4 ten-digit suffixes, reported in kilograms.
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.
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.
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 ten-digit suffixes separate of machinery for cleaning or drying…, of strapping machines and of other wrapping and packaging machines. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |