8423.30.00

Analysis

HTS 8423.30.00 covers constant-weight scales and scales for discharging a predetermined weight of material into a bag or container, including hopper scales under heading 8423 (weighing machinery (excluding balances of a sensitivity of 5 cg or better), including…).

Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 2.9%. Compared with 8423.89.90 (other: other), which pays 2.9%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 2.9 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 45% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 45% 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 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 3,460 US establishments employing 158,898 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.