HTS tariff line · chapter 84
8443.15.00
Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing
Analysis
HTS 8443.15.00 covers letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing 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 3.3%. The costliest confusion would be with 8443.11.10 (double-width newspaper printing presses) at 3.3%, a difference of 3.3 points on the customs value.
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.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 25% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 25% duty.
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.
The general rate of Free has not changed in any edition of the schedule since Jan 2023.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8443.11.10 | Double-width newspaper printing presses | 3.3% |
| 8443.11.50 | Offset printing machinery, reel-fed: other | Free |
| 8443.12.00 | Offset printing machinery, sheet-fed, office type (using sheets with one side not exceeding 22 cm and the other side not exceeding 36 cm in the unfolded state) | Free |
| 8443.13.00 | Printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442: other offset printing machinery | Free |
| 8443.14.00 | Letterpress printing machinery, reel fed, excluding flexographic printing | 2.2% |
| 8443.16.00 | Flexographic printing machinery | 2.2% |
| 8443.17.00 | Gravure printing machinery | 2.2% |
| 8443.19.20 | Textile printing machinery | 2.6% |
| 8443.19.30 | Other: other | Free |
| 8443.31.00 | Machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network | Free |
| 8443.32.10 | Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network: printer units | Free |
| 8443.32.50 | Other, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network: other | Free |
| 8443.39.10 | Operating by reproducing the original image directly onto the copy (direct process) | Free |
| 8443.39.20 | Operating by reproducing the original image via an intermediate onto the copy (indirect process) | Free |
| 8443.39.30 | Incorporating an optical system | Free |
| 8443.39.40 | Of the contact type | Free |
| 8443.39.50 | Thermocopying apparatus | Free |
| 8443.39.60 | Copying machines: other | Free |
| 8443.39.90 | Other: other | Free |
| 8443.91.10 | Machines for uses ancillary to printing | Free |
| 8443.91.20 | Parts for textile printing machinery | Free |
| 8443.91.30 | Parts and accessories of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442: other | Free |
| 8443.99.10 | Accessory and auxiliary machines which are intended for attachment to an electrostatic photocopier and which do not operate independently of such photocopier | Free |
| 8443.99.20 | Parts of printer units of subheading 8443.32.10 specified in additional U.S. note 2 to this chapter | Free |
| 8443.99.25 | Parts and accessories of printers: other | Free |
| 8443.99.30 | Parts of facsimile machines specified in additional U.S. note 3 to this chapter | Free |
| 8443.99.35 | Parts and accessories of facsimile machines: other | Free |
| 8443.99.40 | Parts of photocopying apparatus of subheading 8443.39.20 specified in additional U.S. note 4 to this chapter | Free |
| 8443.99.45 | Parts and accessories of copying machines: other | Free |
| 8443.99.50 | Other: other | Free |