8423

Analysis

Heading 8423 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including weight-operated counting or checking machines; weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of weighing machinery. It divides into 7 six-digit subheadings and 10 eight-digit tariff lines, with 17 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

7 of its 10 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (70%) and 3 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 2.9%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8423.20 (scales for continuous weighing of goods on…, 2 lines), 8423.89 (other, 2 lines), 8423.90 (weighing machine weights of all kinds; parts of…, 2 lines) and 8423.10 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (33399). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.