Analysis
HTS 8443.99.25 covers parts and accessories of printers: other under heading 8443 (printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
For statistics it divides in two: 8443.99.25.10 for ink cartridges and 8443.99.25.50 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
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 325910 (Printing Ink Manufacturing), an industry of 306 US establishments employing 9,170 people. That is the industry code a US manufacturer of the same product would normally use.
Statistical suffixes
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 8443.99.30 | 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 |