8443.11.10

Analysis

HTS 8443.11.10 covers double-width newspaper printing presses under heading 8443 (printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing…).

Rates on the nearby lines range from duty-free to 2.6%. The costliest confusion would be with 8443.99.50 (other: other) at duty-free, a difference of 3.3 points on the customs value.

The general duty rate is 3.3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 84 (79th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $330 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

Goods that qualify under GSP, the Australia FTA, the Bahrain FTA, the Chile FTA, the Colombia TPA, and 12 others can enter duty-free instead of paying 3.3%. It is also eligible under GSP, the developing-country programme, which Congress has to renew; check whether GSP is in force on the entry date.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 25%, 7.6 times the general rate.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 33324 (Industrial Machinery Manufacturing), an industry of 2,836 US establishments employing 111,497 people, the industry a domestic producer of these goods reports under.