Analysis
HTS 8433.59.00 covers other harvesting machinery; threshing machinery: other under heading 8433 (harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8433.59.00.10 for field forage harvesters and 8433.59.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
There is no general-rate duty on this line, which puts it with roughly 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84 that are also free. 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 333111 (Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 1,120 US establishments employing 69,047 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.
All 11 neighbouring lines carry the same duty-free rate, so a borderline choice between them changes the statistics reported, not the duty paid.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring 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 |
| 8433.60.00 | 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 |