8445

Analysis

Heading 8445 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule covers machines for preparing textile fibers; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other machinery for producing textile yarns; textile reeling or winding (including weft winding) machines and machines for preparing…. It divides into 8 six-digit subheadings and 8 eight-digit tariff lines, with 10 ten-digit statistical suffixes below them.

5 of its 8 lines with a percentage rate are duty-free at the general rate (62%) and 3 are dutiable, from duty-free up to 3.7%. The median line pays duty-free.

The largest subheadings are 8445.11 (unnamed, 1 line), 8445.12 (unnamed, 1 line), 8445.13 (unnamed, 1 line) and 8445.19 (unnamed, 1 line).

Its median rate of duty-free sits at the 30th percentile of the headings in chapter 84.

By Census's concordance, most of its statistical lines are made by Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (33324) and Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111). Those are the NAICS industries a US producer of these goods would report under.