Analysis
HTS 8443.16.00 covers flexographic printing machinery 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 8443.99.50 (other: other) at duty-free, a difference of 2.2 points on the customs value.
The general duty rate is 2.2% of the customs value, which is in the middle of the rates in chapter 84 (64th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $220 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 2.2%. 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%, 11.4 times the general rate.
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% |
| 8443.15.00 | Letterpress printing machinery, other than reel fed, excluding flexographic printing | Free |
| 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 |