8443.31.00

Analysis

HTS 8443.31.00 covers machines which perform two or more of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing… under heading 8443 (printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing…).

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 3.3%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8443.11.10 (double-width newspaper printing presses), at 3.3%: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.3 percentage points.

Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 35% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 35% duty.

Goods classified here enter the United States duty-free at the general (normal trade relations) rate, as do about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.

Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 334118 (Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing), an industry of 284 US establishments employing 11,143 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.