8443

Analysis

Heading 8443 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; other printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined; parts and accessories…. It divides into 13 six-digit subheadings and 31 eight-digit tariff lines, with 43 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

26 of its 31 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (84%) and 5 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 3.3%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8443.99 (other, 8 lines), 8443.39 (other, 7 lines), 8443.91 (parts and accessories of printing machinery used…, 3 lines) and 8443.11 (offset printing machinery, reel-fed, 2 lines).

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), Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (334118) and Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing (33331). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.