Analysis
HTS 8433.90.50 covers parts: 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 5 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
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.
The ten-digit suffixes separate road wheels, of haying machines and balers, of machines for cleaning, sorting or… and of machines for cleaning, sorting or…. The duty is the same across them; the suffix matters for statistics, licensing and some quotas, and an entry needs all ten digits.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 333111 (Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 1,120 US establishments employing 69,047 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Statistical suffixes
| Code | Description | Units | NAICS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8433.90.50.10 | Road wheels | No. | 333111 |
| 8433.90.50.25 | Of haying machines and balers | No. | 333111 |
| 8433.90.50.45 | Other | No. | 333111 |
| 8433.90.50.60 | Of machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs | No. | 333111 |
| 8433.90.50.80 | Of machines for cleaning, sorting or grading fruit or other agricultural produce | No. | 333111 |
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 |
| 8433.59.00 | 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 |