8445.19.00

Analysis

HTS 8445.19.00 covers machines for preparing textile fibers: other under heading 8445 (machines for preparing textile fibers; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other…). US Customs collects import statistics for it under 2 ten-digit suffixes, reported in number of items.

Neighbouring lines carry rates from duty-free to 3.7%, so the exact line matters. The widest gap is with 8445.30.00 (textile doubling or twisting machines), at duty-free: a product that belongs there but is entered here, or the reverse, changes the duty by 3.3 percentage points.

The general duty rate is 3.3% of the customs value, which is above most the rates in chapter 84 (79th percentile of 823 lines with an ad valorem rate). On a shipment valued at $10,000 that is $330 in duty before any Chapter 99 additions or preference claims.

The column 2 rate, for countries without normal trade relations, is 40%, 12.1 times the general rate.

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 3.3%. 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.

For statistics it divides in two: 8445.19.00.40 for cotton gins and 8445.19.00.80 for other. Both pay the same duty; the suffix records which kind was imported.