HTS heading · chapter 84
8433
Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437; parts thereof
Analysis
Heading 8433 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437; parts…. It divides into 11 six-digit subheadings and 12 eight-digit tariff lines, with 31 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
Every one of its 12 tariff lines is duty-free at the general rate, so classification within the heading affects statistics and Chapter 99 measures rather than the base duty.
The largest subheadings are 8433.90 (parts, 2 lines), 8433.11 (unnamed, 1 line), 8433.19 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8433.20 (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 Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111) and Lawn and Garden Tractor and Home Lawn and Garden Equipment Manufacturing (333112). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8433.11.00 | Powered, with the cutting device rotating in a horizontal plane | Free |
| 8433.19.00 | Mowers for lawns, parks or sports grounds: other | Free |
| 8433.20.00 | Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437; parts thereof: other mowers, including cutter bars for tractor mounting | Free |
| 8433.30.00 | Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading 8437; parts thereof: other haymaking machinery | Free |
| 8433.40.00 | Straw or fodder balers, including pick-up balers | Free |
| 8433.51.00 | Combine harvester-threshers | Free |
| 8433.52.00 | Other harvesting machinery; threshing machinery: other threshing machinery | Free |
| 8433.53.00 | Root or tuber harvesting machines | Free |
| 8433.59.00 | Other harvesting machinery; threshing machinery: other | Free |
| 8433.60.00 | Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce | Free |
| 8433.90.10 | Of mowers for lawns, parks or sports grounds | Free |
| 8433.90.50 | Parts: other | Free |