8424.89.90

Analysis

HTS 8424.89.90 covers other appliances: other under heading 8424 (mechanical appliances (whether or not hand operated) for projecting, dispersing or…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.9%. The costliest confusion would be with 8424.90.90 (parts: other) at duty-free, a difference of 1.8 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 1.8% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (62nd percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $180 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 35%, 19.4 times the general rate.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 13 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 1.8%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333912 (Air and Gas Compressor Manufacturing), an industry of 275 US establishments employing 20,379 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.