HTS tariff line · chapter 84
8444.00.00
Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials
Analysis
HTS 8444.00.00 covers machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials under heading 8444 (machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man-made textile materials). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.
For statistics it divides in two: 8444.00.00.10 for texturing machines and 8444.00.00.90 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 61% of the 823 tariff lines in chapter 84, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
It is the only US line under subheading 8444.00, so the six-digit code used by every Harmonized System country and the eight-digit US line describe the same goods; a foreign tariff or an exporter's invoice showing 8444.00 points straight here.