HTS heading · chapter 84
8442
Machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465), for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished); parts thereof
Analysis
Heading 8442 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machinery, apparatus and equipment (other than the machines of headings 8456 to 8465), for preparing or making plates, cylinders or other printing components; plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates…. It divides into 3 six-digit subheadings and 4 eight-digit tariff lines, with 5 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.
Every one of its 4 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 8442.50 (plates, cylinders and other printing components…, 2 lines), 8442.30 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8442.40 (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 Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (33324) and Support Activities for Printing (323120). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.
Tariff lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8442.30.01 | Machinery, apparatus and equipment | Free |
| 8442.40.00 | Parts of the foregoing machinery, apparatus or equipment | Free |
| 8442.50.10 | Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished): plates | Free |
| 8442.50.90 | Plates, cylinders and other printing components; plates, cylinders and lithographic stones, prepared for printing purposes (for example, planed, grained or polished): other | Free |